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...Carbó, columnist for Prensa Libra: "The picture Guys and Dolls pictures Havana as a mecca for vice. It even goes to the extreme of presenting an honest missionary (Jean Simmons) who, influenced by what she sees here, gets drunk and passes out on a strange potion from a coconut shell in the midst of an atmosphere of scandal and prostitution." Luis Conte Aguero, Diario Nacional columnist, harking back to an earlier assault on Havana's morals, put it differently: "There is a lot of truth in the story, but there are also a lot of false statements...
Heavily laden with gifts ranging from a coconut-shell lampshade to a baby tiger, the roving Communists flew on to Burma. At roughly the same moment, Communist insurgents in the Burmese city of May-myo were busy kidnaping two doctors of the World Health Organization...
Responding to Sihanouk's invitation, thousands of sarong-clad Cambodian Smiths and Mrs. Smiths thronged into the city to participate in a national congress to suggest constitutional amendment and nominate a Premier. All an adult citizen needed to do to be a "congressman" was to present a coconut, a grapefruit, or some similar token, to King Norodom Suramarit, Sihanouk's father. Some 30,000 availed themselves of the opportunity...
...finger poi and "everything else on the table": kalua pig, pork laulau (pork and salmon wrapped in taro leaves), pulehu aku (dried fish), lomi (salmon, raw, with tomatoes and chopped onion), chicken luau, dried squid, raw fish and limu (chopped seaweed), baked breadfruit and baked taro, haupia (coconut pudding), all washed down with plenty of beer and soft drinks. Under the new regime, Peter cut down to one egg and two slices of whole wheat toast for breakfast, firmly turned his back on beer and poi. In order to remove temptation, Mrs. Kane fed their nine children earlier than their...
...member of one of Ceylon's patrician families, Sir John is strong-minded, wealthy (coconut groves and graphite mines) and sometimes unpredictable. He captained the cricket team at Colombo's Royal College, went on to study agriculture at Cambridge and rose quickly through the British colonial civil service. At 36, Kotelawala was Minister for Agriculture; at 38, as Minister of Communications, he did a well-remembered job on Ceylon's infant hydroelectric power network. Yet for all these early achievements, he did not become Prime Minister until two years ago, when he was 56. In his first...