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Eight times Seattle pulled out all the stops to welcome home a boatload of "rotating" G.I.s returning from Korea. The standard welcome program: brass bands, free theater tickets, ice cream, candy, a performance on the wharf by bathing beauties, swivel-hipped hula girls, and prancing cancan dancers. The boys thought it was great stuff, but some of Seattle's moms didn't. They wrote letters to the papers, buttonholed and berated officials to complain about the show the girls put on at dockside...
...wife of a Tahitian planter who had entertained Voyager Thor Heyerdahl and friends at a hula party in Papeete decided that the dance was strictly a private affair, never meant for public eyes. Since Heyerdahl filmed it, then used a few seconds of the shot in his movie Kon-Tiki, she sued...
Shirtless and full of aloha spirits, Cinemactor Zachary (Born to Be Bad) Scott walked into a Honolulu penny arcade where a bemused crowd gathered to watch him shimmy through a barefoot hula. The show ended when, cops arrived, charged Scott with being drunk, bedded him in jail for six hours...
...bombing Syria in retaliation for the shooting of seven Israeli soldiers (TIME, May 14). Eban's faint failed to influence the Council: while he was out, it adopted the measure 10-0, with Russia abstaining. The resolution ordered Israel to 1) suspend work on its project to drain Hula swamp in the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria, which had caused the flare-up, 2) return Arabs whom it had deported from the area to make room for Jewish settlers. The sponsors of the resolution (U.S., Britain, France and Turkey) made it clear that they only wanted to postpone...
...minor border war between Israel and Syria (TIME, May 14) quieted down last week while representatives of both countries drafted a cease-fire agreement. The draft contains no reference to the basic cause of the fighting: Israel's draining of the Hula marshes in the demilitarized zone...