Word: polynesian
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...bulkier the monarch, the greater his subjects' blessings and prosperity. This has been the comfortable philosophy of the 77,000 Polynesian islanders of Tonga, a British protectorate 850 miles northeast of New Zealand. The stately figure of their beloved Queen Salote (6 ft. 3 in., 280 Ibs.) was widely admired during Queen Elizabeth's coronation procession in London in 1953, when Salote rode proudly erect in the pouring rain without benefit of hat or umbrella; Tongans do not cover themselves in the presence of superiors. Salote died in 1965. Last week her son, Taufa' Ahau Tupou...
...Though most Tongans were converted to Christianity by Wesleyan and Catholic missionaries, they have managed to retain their own gods too. Their monarchy is indigenous and one of the world's oldest: Tupou IV traces his lineage back a thousand years, and his is the last surviving Polynesian kingdom in Oceania...
AMIONG many Polynesian tribes, the chief never utters a word in public: the speaking is done for him by a "talking chief" who is expert in the history of the tribe. The U.S. has adopted a similar custom on a grand scale. Here the talking chiefs are called public relations...
Exploring Burial Caves. To accommodate visitors new luxury hotels are also proliferating in the Neighbor Islands. Empress of the group is Laurance Rockefeller's $15 million Mauna Kea on Hawaii. Among its attractions: rooms and promenades full of Polynesian wood carvings, inner courtyards luxuriant with bamboo, hibiscus and banana trees, plus exclusive rights to canter over the Parker ranch with jovial Hawaiian paniolas (cowboys) and a challenging 18-hole $2,000,000 golf course. Since its opening in July, 1965, Mauna Kea has been virtually S.R.O. It is raising its rates this month...
...capital of Hawaii in the days of King Kamehameha III (1833-54) and a brawling happy-go-lucky port of call for whaling fleets. Under a $1,600,000 state grant, Lahaina's old palaces and prisons, missionary homes and hospitals are being restored into a sort of Polynesian Williamsburg. Tourists can cruise offshore in the 53-ft. schooner The Allure and, in wintertime, watch the herds of 50-ft.-long humpback and lob-tail whales that frolic and cavort with their calves as close as 150 ft. from shore...