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...Pago à Go-Go. When the presidential party touched down for a 115-minute refueling stop at Pago Pago (pronounced pongo pongo or pahgo pahgo) on the American Samoan isle of Tutuila next day, nearly one-fourth of its 22,000 people turned out, carrying umbrellas and banyan branches against the blazing sun. Along the tapa-cloth welcome mat, 50 bare-chested chiefs and their wives took part in the Pago à Go-Go, draping the President with ulas-Samoan leis-made of shells. In an even more honorific ritual, the Johnsons were offered coconut shells filled with a bitter...
...Tiger Balm. More and more, U.S. firms are using free travel as a sales incentive; this year 8,000 compa nies are sending crackerjack salesmen to such faraway places as Venice (RCA) or Pago Pago (Ford). Nobody does it as grandly as Gibson. The company is paying out $2,000,000 for jet charters alone, will spend another half million to quarter guests in Hong Kong's Manda rin and Hilton hotels and entertain them. Each dealer is furnished with a 40-coupon book of tickets entitling him to everything from a pot of Oriental welcoming tea on arrival...
Well, how many wives married to drunkards have not had the same impulse? And gone on to parties? Or take the case of Rain. Maugham saw a prostitute hurry aboard his Tahiti-bound boat. A missionary and his wife were also aboard, and on arrival in Pago Pago, the group was thrown into quarantine because of a measles epidemic. Maugham added a tropical rain season to the measles, and made the confrontation of missionary and whore into a classic contest between righteousness and sin. What man (or clergyman) has not felt the visceral taint of the sensual in his ostensibly...
...latest joke craze is inventing names for imaginary discothèques. Thus, they dance the real Watusi at the Belgian Congo-Go, do the monkey at the Malay Archipelago-Go. There's a Santo Domingo-Go, a San Diego-Go, and a Pago Pago-Go. Paris's Left Bank has a new fruggery called the Vincent Van Gogh-Gogh (it's just across the street from the more famous Deux Magots-Go). Duke Ellington's new place is called the Mood Indigo-Go, and the squares out in Pasadena are in waltz time at the Long...
Clarifying Confusion. School in American Samoa used to begin any time; if a teacher had some faalavelave (personal business), he might close school all day. Now station KVZK broadcasts from the two-story Michael J. Kirwan Studios at Utulei, just outside Pago Pago, from 8:05 a.m. until 2:05 p.m., and attendance at the tuned-in schools is close to perfect. Teachers from the U.S. mainland carry the burden of the TV instruction, live or on tape. Every classroom has a receiver with a 23-in. screen, and Samoan teachers with lesson guides follow up when the TV instructor...