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Toward Coolness. As he set sail last January aboard the Kamakura Maru to take up his appointment in the U.S., Admiral Nomura was tall with hope. At first things went swimmingly. At Honolulu U.S. naval officers, among them Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet Admiral James O. Richardson, greeted...
With warring nations bidding for her produce, Bucharest's stockmarket is booming as rarely before. Rumania's currency is controlled, but a Black Bourse operates full-blast and the Bucharest visitor with valuta (foreign exchange) in his pocket has no trouble at all in getting in touch with...
So are the leis, the wreaths of flowers flung around his neck when he left. They were pretty and his neck felt like that of the army officer who must dress in a tuxedo every night and eat alone with his wife.
¶ One afternoon last week, the President received a fresh and odorous wreath of flowers to wrap around his neck. Three mornings earlier, the same flowers had been growing to their native roots in Hawaii. New air transportation over the Pacific had made it possible for Governor Joseph B. Poindexter...
The feather helmets designed by aboriginal artisans bear a striking resemblance to the helmets worn by ancient Greek warriors under Alexander the Great. Feather necklaces, or garlands, the native precursors of the modern flower "leis" familiar to tourists, are also in the display.