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...deck cabin with two bunks) to $29,000 (for a main deck suite), they had come from the U.S. (500 of them in all) to see the Pacific in style over a leisurely 99 days, picking up memories and mementos in exotic ports from Pitcairn Island to Singapore. In Kobe, the first of two stops in Japan, they lost no time adding to the collection. Heading virtually en masse for the Great Circle department store, they bought out its entire stock of high-priced screens, dolls and kimonos. "Incredible," murmured one dazed floor manager, "the more expensive the items...
There are, in all, eight free and sovereign nations, 65 colonies, protectorates and trust territories (the smallest of them: Pitcairn Island, two square miles in the Pacific; the largest, Tanganyika, 362,688 square miles in East Africa). All are bound together into one geopolitical phenomenon called the Commonwealth...
...most successful was made by the famous mutineers from the British warship Bounty, who settled down on Pitcairn Island in 1790 with some Tahitian women. The offspring of six mutineers and about a dozen women were examined in 1825 and found to be notably taller than either Englishmen or Tahitians. Some of them were strong enough to lift 600 Ibs. They were so fertile (an average of 9.1 children per family in the third generation) that they soon overcrowded the island. Other isolated racial crossings (which were not adversely affected by social disapproval) turned out almost as well...
...Airways 23 years ago, a pilot was still a glamorous daredevil who put his faith in good luck and seat-of-the-pants intuition. There were no radio ranges, no airways weather reports, none but the most rudimentary of cockpit instruments. Clambering into the open cockpit of an old Pitcairn biplane, Pilot Proctor, swathed to the eyes in fleece-lined flying gear, used to start his run at Buffalo, lug his mail to Cleveland, navigating by landmarks and cruising at 80 m.p.h...
Last week, Cashier Hoffman got another letter from her friend on Pitcairn Island, saying that a new shipment of baskets was on the way. But Christian wanted no more sheets or pillowcases in exchange. This time, he asked, would she please send U.S. dollars...