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...Mexico, although it retains several new runs to Hawaii which, as domestic routes, are not subject to presidential review. Under the Johnson decision, Los Angeles-based Continental Airlines stood to grow from the eleventh biggest U.S. trunk line into a sizable international carrier serving such South Pacific spots as Samoa, Australia and New Zealand. Continental's President Bob Six had served the previous Administration by providing extensive-if not always clearly defined-services in Southeast Asia. The line has at various times employed such Democratic stalwarts as Lloyd Hand, Pierre Salinger and Clark Clif ford's law firm...
...Boas, the founder of American anthropology as an academic discipline, she caught the conviction that study of primitive societies could teach sophisticated Western man a good deal about his own institutions-and about changing them. At 23, she set off for six months alone among remote fisherfolk in American Samoa. The result of her research, published in 1928 when she was 26, was Coming of Age in Samoa...
...jargon-free, almost lyrical prose, Coming of Age described how a cultural web of ritual, taboo, kinship and history formed the typical Samoan personality. Growing up is "so easy, so simple," she found, because "Samoa is a place where no one plays for very high stakes, suffers for his convictions or fights to the death. Caring is slight." The book became a bestseller and basic reading for introductory social-science courses; it is still in print. Though the work broke no theoretical ground, Margaret Mead's conclusion that the Samoan teen-ager was calm and free from trauma provided...
...JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "American Samoa: Paradise Lost?" examines the tropical paradise now in the throes of a "culture clash" since educational television has revolutionized learning and tourists have discovered Pago Pago...
Winners and Losers. In picking the winner, President Johnson went along with many-but not all-of the original recommendations. Probably the greatest gainer was Los Angeles-based Continental Airlines, only the eleventh biggest U.S. airline. Its new runs to Samoa, Micronesia, Australia and New Zealand will make it a sizable inter national carrier. Another big gainer was TWA, which was awarded rights to fly from the U.S. to Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places. By linking its new Pacific runs with its existing transatlantic ones, which go as far as Hong Kong, TWA will become a round-the-world...