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...Chou. Nasser smiled. Chou asked if this was Nasser's first trip out of Egypt and, told that it was, added: "You should take advantage of this trip and travel to all the Asian countries." Nasser smiled again. In Rangoon, the Premiers sipped iced coconut milk and spent hours together conferring on matters coming up at Bandung. Chou En-lai was the first to leave for Bandung, but the last to arrive. Presumably concerned by what happened to a plane carrying an advance delegation from Peking (see below), Chou kept his schedule secret. At its stops his plane...
...Vice President Nixon's 28-day, ten-country swing through Mexico and the Caribbean area was a bulging success. It brought reams of enthusiastic newspaper stories, and snapshots of Dick and Pat Nixon getting keys to cities, eating bananas in banana republics, shaking hands with grinning laborers, sipping coconut milk, greeting hospital patients, and-finally-getting the big welcome-home hug from their kids after landing in Washington last weekend. But between the scrapbook pages there was another story-the story of grueling, 18-hour days, of hard cramming that would stagger a Phi Beta Kappa, of life...
...wrapping their fists and forearms with cotton twine, dipping the resulting gauntlets into gum and sprinkling them liberally with broken glass. Before a fight, the gum was allowed to harden until a man's arm became a club. There were no weight limits, no rounds-only a punctured coconut shell floating in a container of water. The fight continued until the shell sank, or until one of the boxers fell unconscious or dead...
Died. Dr. David Fairchild, 85, agricultural explorer who was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 species of plants to the U.S. (including the soybean, papaya, avocado), in 1905 planted Washington's first Japanese cherry trees; of a heart ailment; in Coconut Grove...
...covering the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Salote of Tonga (TIME, Dec. 28), Richard MacMillan recorded his choice menu: 4,200 roasted suckling pigs, 2,100 chickens, baked taro and yams, fresh pineapple, watermelon and bananas, shellfish and coconut milk...