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...rains descended on the miasmal coast of southern New Guinea, and with them came the end of the air search for Anthropologist Michael Clark Rockefeller, 23, last seen a fortnight earlier swimming away from his capsized boat in the shark-ridden Arafura Sea (TIME, Dec. 1). Though missionaries and Papuan natives doggedly beat on through the increasingly impassable bush, the Australian rescue helicopters departed-as did Michael's father, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who, upon his arrival at Idlewild Airport, first began to use the past tense in describing his adventurous youngest son: "He knew...
...partly tamed head-hunting tribes, the Harvard expedition hiked into the island's midland wilderness. To a restless spirit, the jungle appealed. Rockefeller grew a beard, Indian-wrestled with companions until he became the expedition champion. He carried out enthusiastically his assignment as sound technician, taping Papuan war chants and the curious teeth grinding that passes for Papuan singing...
Nearly half of Netherlands New Guinea's 700,000 Papuans still live in primitive villages where the cowrie shell is the medium of exchange and where women often rank below pigs on the social scale. For the primitive tribesmen of the interior, the concept of government does not exist; their only political guideposts are myth and magic. Head-hunting and cannibalism are still practiced in some areas. Some Papuan natives wear no clothes save for string, have no dishes or cooking utensils. They consider death the action of a wizard, often chop off the ends of their fingers...
Poking about Hanuabada Village, a Port Moresby native quarter, Hubbard came across the village council clerk, Rima Gavera, sitting at a battered desk, engrossed in his reading. The reading matter: TIME. Clerk Gavera, a native Papuan, explained that he is a faithful reader of TIME (as are 1,000 other New Guineans), with a special interest. "I like stories about satellites," he said, "and TIME has the best ones." The other New Guinea tale from Correspondent Hubbard is reported in PRESS, Roll-Your-Own Newspaper...
...Post's columns are as exotic as its habitat, lean hard on local news: the native mother who accused a neighbor of doing in her youngest son; a warning that the dangers of capturing Papuan black snakes far outweigh their medicinal value. Periodically, readers are brought up to date on population losses caused by wild boars, crocodiles, sharks and cannibals. Post advertisers plug canned butter, rainwater tanks, ceiling fans, copra boats and soap, sometimes in pidgin English: "Altaim waswas long sop new bilong im Palmolive...