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...world's loneliest places is the Cocos Islands, a group of 27 coral islets whose tall coconut palms are fanned by the soft trade winds of the Indian Ocean midway between Ceylon and Australia. Until last week, one of the loneliest men there was its benevolent ruler: king John Clunies-Ross, a slim young (22) Briton who rules the 1,200 copra-gathering islanders under a 999-year charter granted by Queen Victoria to his great-greatgrandfather, Ross I, a Scot from the Shetland Isles, who settled there...
...million-a-year concern with 37 plants in the U.S. and Canada. It turns out hundreds of products, ranging from bug poison to salad dressing, from lacquer to sex hormones. In the past two years, Glidden's new products have included a quick-drying paint (Spred Satin), sweetened coconut shreds that stay fresh until used, silicone enamel (a cross between porcelain and plastic used for washing machines, refrigerators, etc.), and a long-keeping commercial shortening for cooking. The latest project: an economical way to extract Cortisone from soybeans...
...bought a linseed oil plant, a lead plant and a zinc mine, and built a turpentine and rosin distillator. Everything he did led to something else. The crushing season for linseed oil lasted only six months; to keep his plant busy the rest of the year, Joyce started crushing coconut oil from copra. Since the best market for coconut oil was in food products, he bought up seven food companies, including E. R. Durkee & Co. (spices, Worcestershire sauce, mayonnaise and oleomargarine...
Eight years ago, Americans and Australians fought the Japanese around Lamington. After the war it became again an area of peaceful coconut plantations, native villages and missions. Seventy whites, mostly Australian government officials and missionaries, and 4,400 natives, all but 400 of them Christians, lived there. When the non-Christian natives recently began predicting that the Spirit Mountain would again spew fire and death, the mission natives scoffed at the "barbarians." But the barbarians went away...
...fascination lies largely in Author Godden's Ariel-light prose, for her island is notably barren of ideas. The leading idea of the volume is, in fact, just an old coconut: youth will be served, and old age must do the serving. The Book-of-the-Month Club has decided to let its subscribers crack that one in February...