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When a long-dormant volcano spewed molten rock over their windswept Atlantic island in October 1961, the 260 inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha were rescued and brought to never-had-it-so-good Britain. Last week, after a year's exposure to the packaged joys of the affluent society, the hardy, forthright islanders decided that they had never had it so bad. In a secret ballot to decide whether or not they should return to a primitive, precarious existence on their isolated island, adult Tristan islanders voted overwhelmingly, 148 to 5, to return home...
...hardy people of Tristan da Cunha discovered last week that there is a force more powerful than Atlantic gales and flaming volcanoes-bureaucracy...
...much of it; the people are too small." After making a down payment on a transistor radio, another Tristan islander was baffled by the bill for the next installment, asked, "How often does a man have to pay for the same thing in h'England?" On Tristan da Cunha, the only wage-earning job was in the local crayfish cannery, where everyone got the same pay. In England, the visitors could not comprehend the idea of different pay rates for different jobs. Argued one: "H'it h'ain't fair. They's not payin...
...Repetto, the 60-year-old leader of the islanders, claims, on the basis of a Royal Society expedition, that the lava flow has actually improved the island by creating a breakwater, and last week he appealed to the British Colonial Office, asking for help in returning to Tristan da Cunha...
...Short. In Rio de Janeiro, the Panair do Brasil airline reported that it had issued a ticket to a Europe-bound woman passenger under the name Maria Cunha, rather than the name she had given them: Maria Teresa Francisco de Assis da Concepqao da Rocha Filomena das Necessidades do Sagrado Coragao de Jesus Pereira da Cunha...