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...books: The Strategy of Peace and Profiles in Courage. Some of the President's recent reading-Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and New York Herald Trib-man Bob Donovan's Inside Story of the Eisenhower Administration-cluttered the big presidential desk. Beside them was the coconut shell on which Navy Lieut. Jack Kennedy had scratched a message asking for rescue after his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer during World...
...rakish palm hat, Bernstein entertained his entire New York Philharmonic Orchestra, which was flown over to Maui after two concerts under Bernstein's baton in Honolulu. During the day the mellowing boy wonder of music went waterskiing, stuffed himself with poi and other Hawaiian goodies, planted a coconut tree and got a raft of gifts, including a pass exempting him from being jugged for any Maui traffic violations...
...hesitation to become the candidate for Prime Minister. Opposing her was the United National Party's able, Cambridge-educated Barrister Dudley Shelton Senanayake, 49, who has been serving as caretaker Prime Minister since April. Senanayake could brag that his party had soundly run Ceylon's tea-rubber-coconut economy in their days of power (1948-56). Under the United National Party's administration, Ceylon had achieved a per-capita income double neighboring India...
...last year Sutton has toted his tools more than 100,000 miles, most recently to Tahiti, where he dined on raw fish in coconut milk, papaya-banana pudding-and, of course, paregoric. His wife Pat, 24, a former night-club dancer, usually goes along, once traveled abroad six times in six months. Sutton is handsomely rewarded for his peregrinations: from his column, Of All Places, which is syndicated in 35 papers, and from his periodic travelogues for the Saturday Review, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and other publications, he earns some $40,000 a year...
Hurricane Hazel leveled most of the coconut palms in 1955. Bostonian Sumner Smith, who got title to the Swans by default in 1950 after his partners in the trading company dropped out. says: "Maybe, some day, somebody will think of something to do with them." Though lined with lovely beaches, the islands are far off the tourist track and have almost no fresh water. In their spare time, the recent U.S. explorers collected butterflies, iguanas and a variety of legless lizards. They found no swans, however; the islands take their name from an English pirate, and swans are as hard...