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Leaders of the Honduran University Students' Federation rallied for a flag-planting voyage into the Caribbean last week. The Tegucigalpa daily, El Cronista, talked darkly of conflict with "American adventurers." At issue were the Swan Islands-three specks of sand and coconut palm 100 miles off the Honduran coast, which constitute the U.S.'s only currently disputed territorial claim. Cause of the new controversy: the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey last month reminded everyone of the U.S. claims by dispatching Captain E. L. Jones aboard the survey ship Explorer to take a thorough census of the islands...
...Communists could overcome this legacy of hate, India's big Congress Party last week was sending in its biggest guns for the campaign, just in case. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru himself flew in to address the voters in Kerala, and party pennants fluttered from thousands of flagpoles and coconut trees...
Apart from Major Hall's crochet hooks. the image that lingers longest with the reader is that of poor Ella Haggin on a coconut isle with the ominous thrum of bongo drums in her ear, while the natives chomp raw fish for an appetizer. Author Eliot confides that eventually Ella got a divorce, but otherwise she leaves this and many another story in just the tantalizingly scrappy shape she found it in family memoirs or the gossip sheets of the gilded age. Either because of fellow feeling (she is herself the child of an Anglo-American match and bears...
Well, almost himself. Billy Bailey is 73 and runs Singapore's Coconut Grove, an obscure and homey bar (no unescorted women allowed) next door to a Buddhist nunnery on Singapore's Cuppage Road. A guitar keeps the air moving. The drinks are on the level, and the talk is good, since Iowa-born, ex-Vaudevillian Bailey does most...
...When the British liberated Singapore in 1945, the Baileys wandered out of prison and into town, found a house marked ENEMY PROPERTY. Bill added a note of his own-"Occupied by Bill Bailey"-and moved in. The couple liked the place, settled down, soon turned it into the Coconut Grove. Old Trouper Bailey had come home at last...