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Curious to hear about TIME'S impact on the 600 or so natives of Niuafo'ou (which is generally called Tin Can Island in honor of its un usual mail-delivery system), Dame enclosed a questionnaire with some recent issues. He received a written reply from Kitione Mamata, the island's telegraph operator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: may 12, 1967 | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...correspondent, Telegraph Operator Mamata proved irrepressible. When Dame asked him if he would like to see cruise ships call regularly, he almost bubbled over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: may 12, 1967 | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...brought ashore-there will be a little thing that will live and stir in their mind and cause their mind to think." Even with a thousand sheets of paper to spell out his enthusiasm for the kind of offisland contact that now comes mainly through TIME, said Mamata, "surely I can't finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: may 12, 1967 | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

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