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Imagine the natives' surprise in 1954 when a grizzled old American William Willis, then 61, hit the beach on Pago Pago, Eastern Samoa, after floating 6,400 miles across the Pacific-on a raft, no less. That was even better than the Kon-Tiki expedition. "It was a nightmare, and a beautiful dream," said Willis, and decided to do it again some time. Last week it was the natives of Apia, Western Samoa, who were star tled, as in over the reef came Willis, two cats and raft, four months and 6,500 miles out of Callao, Peru...
Died. Tupua Tamasese Mea A Ole, 55, joint head of state (with Malietoa Tanumafili II) of Western Samoa. Polynesia's first, and so far only, independent nation, a shrewd and urbane politician, who negotiated his South Pacific island country's peaceful 1961 breakaway from New Zealand; of cancer; in Western Samoa...
...Camp's choice was to go elsewhere in search of cheaper labor. The first step was into American Samoa, where the company based a fishing fleet and built a cannery. Then, in quick succession, Van Camp bought a cannery in Puerto Rico, set up two freezing plants on Africa's Atlantic coast, and established four canneries in Peru and one in Ecuador. Meanwhile, the U.S. Government helped out by increasing the tariff on Japanese tuna. The result has been a sharp turnaround for Van Camp: in the past ten years, the company has doubled its sales...
Last week Dr. John F. Kessel of the U.C.L.A. School of Medicine reported that a postwar drug, combined with vigorous mosquito control, has all but eradicated mumu from Tahiti and nearby islands. Next to be attacked is American Samoa. Dr. Kessel and his U.C.L.A. team, encouraged by Samoa's Governor H. Rex Lee, will start work there this month...
...Tahitians, all but a handful have taken Hetrazan. In five years, the incidence of filariasis has dropped from 40% to less than 5%, and elephantiasis has all but disappeared. Dr. Kessel expects the same results in Samoa, where filariasis in some areas is up nearly 100% since...