Word: fiji
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PROTEST NO MENTION OF THE ROYAL VISIT TO FIJI. THE COMMONWEALTH'S MOST LOYAL SUBJECTS GAVE IMPRESSIVE AND SINCERE WELCOME...
...world. She will be required to preside graciously at half a hundred state balls, garden parties, luncheons and banquets, at eleven investitures, 133 receptions and 27 children's displays. She will open six Parliaments, lay seven wreaths, unveil three memorials, plant six trees, dedicate a school in Fiji, a road in Jamaica and a cathedral in New Zealand. If all this does not in itself add up to history, the tact, charm and grace with which Elizabeth and her husband perform their courtesy calls will have an important bearing on the future of their realm...
...learn something about these TIME readers, who they are and how they live and work, questionnaires were sent to 23 countries ranging from Japan to Fiji, from Australia to Afghanistan...
...reported that they entertained an average of eleven guests a month in their homes. Undoubtedly many of the guests are presented with slightly thumbed issues of TIME, for three out of five reported that they passed each issue along to friends, relatives or institutions. Reported a reader from Suva, Fiji: "My copy is read by myself and family and then passed on to a number of prominent citizens of Suva and finally finds its way to a coconut plantation for the perusal of the overseers." No copy of TIME, he added, stops circulating while it is still legible enough...
...makes the trip in 12| hours, cutting almost six hours from the flight time of C.P.A.'s DC-45. In Honolulu, once C.P.A.'s jet liners are in service, the DC-6B passengers can transfer to the Comets for Sydney. Australia, with stops at Canton, Fiji and Auckland; the Vancouver-Sydney trip, which now takes 50 hours, will be cut to 27½ hours...