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...Rico is better known among development-minded people abroad than it is among Americans. For this week's festivities, 323 foreign students and technicians are on hand, the latest of more than 3,000 who have come in the last five years from such distant places as the Fiji Islands, Pakistan, Iceland, Israel, Ethiopia and Nepal...
...species were collected on the expedition, including 100 unknown before. In addition to the discovery of the Ceylon ant, the expedition fulfilled two major purposes; expanding the insect holdings of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and collecting and studying data on the distribution and behavior of ants from Fiji to Australia...
...Ceylon it is called parangi, in the Fiji Islands coco, in the Gold Coast dube. By these and some 80 other dread names, yaws is known the world over as a painful, crippling and highly contagious disease that covers the body with sores and eventually eats away the outer flesh. Half its estimated 50 million victims, most of whom caught it as children, are in Africa...
Last week Joyita sat high and dry on a beach at Fiji, hugging her secret in silence, while official investigators from three nations pondered the problem. Perhaps, in time, they might find an answer better than that of the U.S. Navy captain who investigated the fate of Mary Celeste in 1873. "I hope and expect," he wrote in his official report, "to hear from her crew. But if we should never hear of them again, I shall remember with interest this sad and silent mystery...
Among the foreign delights served for the special Sunday lunch were Drained Crane Brains with Diced Sequoia Leaves from Zanzibar, and Lamprey Slice Floated on Essence of Llama Leaves from the Fiji Islands. The menu advertised Caribbean Delight with Holy Rolls for breakfast today...