Word: rarotonga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston last week. Within 24 hours he was elected president of his class, and so became the guest of honor at a big beer party in the austere lobby of Harvard's dignified School of Public Health. The student was Dr. Thomas Robert Alexander Harries Davis, 34, of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, and few scholars ever had better excuse for being tardy. Dr. Davis had sailed 11,000 miles from New Zealand to the Charles River in his 48-foot ketch Mini, and had been beset by storms...
Field Work. Born in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, Dr. Davis, 34, got his M.D. in New Zealand, where he specialized in tropical medicine. His hobby is Polynesian anthropology, so when he headed for Harvard for a post-graduate course in public health, he decided to combine the trip with some anthropological field work...
...Rabaul, Author Michener talked over with his wife the places they had seen, the people they had met. Their conclusions: "We would be willing to live on almost any Polynesian island. We'd think ourselves lucky to be able to live on Tahiti or Rarotonga. We could enjoy a year or two on even the loneliest atolls. The inconveniences would be offset by the joyous life-patterns of the people who would share them with...
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