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That evening, while San Juan residents went to street concerts and free ballets as part of the celebration, the Kennedys attended a dinner at the Governor's marbled La Fortaleza palace, with its trickling fountains, croaking tree frogs and nightblooming hibiscus, on the moonlit Bay of San Juan. Before dinner, in one more demonstration of a President's ceaseless attention to foreign policy's disparate parts, Kennedy summoned to his room John Calvin Hill, U.S. consul general in Santo Domingo. Hill, flown to Puerto Rico for the occasion, spent an hour talking to Kennedy about the Dominican...
...status as laborers around Rabaul. The pinched tribeswoman called her cousin to avenge her insult. A Sepik pitched in to help the pincher. Soon it was tribe against tribe. Tolais with white-painted faces armed themselves with baskets of stones and heavy sticks. The more imaginative Sepiks stuck hibiscus blooms in their hair for battle identification and began to flail away with iron bars, bicycle chains, hammers, axes, scissors, knives and jagged can lids nailed to sticks. With fire hoses and a few rifle shots, native and white police finally restored order (New Britain is a U.N. trusteeship administered...
Sandwiched between India and Tibet and ringed about by the towering Himalayas, Nepal long was as remote as a country could get. Underneath its hibiscus and gardenia blossoms, its whitewashed stupas and tinkling bells, its 8,500,000 people were among the most backward in Southeast Asia, beset by malaria, illiteracy and preyed upon by landlords and moneylenders. In 1951 a revolution backed by India toppled the ruling Rana family, who for a hundred years had kept successive Kings virtual prisoners, and King Tribhuvan was restored to power. When the ailing Tribhuvan died in 1955, rule passed to his young...
...Hibiscus Ear. The tour went on through stifling, overcrowded Java, and then to Bali, where the debate between the two leaders degenerated to badinage. Sukarno needled Khrushchev by saying that he could not take a swim in the sea because "you're too corpulent-the sharks will get you." But not even critical Nikita could long stay censorious in lovely Bali. Soon he was wearing a lavender hibiscus over his right ear and casting an appreciative eye on lissome Balinese girls who showered him with rose petals...
...charming but rather feckless character that in the first days of his visit, Khrushchev was taken to no factories, plantations or workshops, or even allowed to mingle with any real people. Instead, there were constant spectacles in the 90° heat of midday, with giggling maidens flinging hibiscus and frangipani petals on the sweating Nikita; there were gargantuan meals, with endless courses of Indonesian and Dutch delicacies (to which Khrushchev always brought his own sour black bread), and nights filled with the tinkling music of gamelan orchestras...