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Centerpiece of the area is a tile-roofed Spanish-colonial building set in a grove of coconut trees and facing on a gleaming white beach, 22 miles east...
...would not be there at all if it were not for the U.S. Since 1947, 164 schools have been built with U.S. aid, and nearly all of the islands' 15,000 school-aged children are now in school. And what kind of economic development can be expected where coconut trees and fish are about the only resources? As for the failure to rebuild former Japanese industries, the U.S. could argue that none of them did the natives much good, since they were designed chiefly to help Japanese war plans-alcohol to fuel torpedoes, bauxite to provide the aluminum...
...only has he lasted, but South Viet Nam has prospered to become an even more tempting target for the Reds-and a standing contrast to the poverty-stricken Communist North. Helped along by $150 million in U.S. aid each year, the South is a hard-working country of paddyfields, coconut groves, rubber plantations and flourishing light industry. South Viet Nam exported 350,-ooo tons of rice last year, seven times the 1957 figure, and currency reserves swelled to a tidy $218 million. Per capita income has jumped 20% in five years, at $120 a year is one of the highest...
...limits. Worst of all, the girls were in dismayingly short supply, outnumbered 10 to 1 by the boys. Any small diversion-someone playing a bongo drum, a girl dancing the limbo-attracted hundreds of listless onlookers. Joseph Penar, a bearded student from Illinois State Normal University, shinnied up a coconut palm one day, for lack of something better to do. "When I got to the top," he reported, "I looked down and saw 300 kids standing around the tree, staring up at me. Anything that moves around here will attract a crowd...
...tree." Then one day a supple vahine named Tarita broke into spontaneous dance before Brando and Director Reed, swayed sensually to the rhythm of sharkskin drums, and extolled Brando's prowess as a godlike lover and drinker of awa, a local fermentation. Brando and Reed conferred. Soon the coconut radios of Tahiti were spreading the message that Tarita had become Hollywood's newest star...