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...great show went on far from Hawaii. It splashed New Zealand with incandescent color, spanned the Pacific with artificial auroras, and reddened the sky almost as far away as Antarctica. Brilliant, many-colored lights changed and danced over Samoa, flashed across remote Campbell Island 5,600 miles from Johnston Island. On the northern side of the magnetic equator, where the same atmospheric force lines dive into the atmosphere, parts of Alaska saw the northern version of New Zealand's aurora. The explosion itself was silent to human ears, but its power caused the earth's atmosphere and magnetic...
...tiny (1,130 sq. mi.), four-island group with a population of only 113,500. Western Samoa * is the first independent Polynesian state, the world's newest nation, and one of the few to achieve independence amid total serenity. Into the capital of Apia (pop. 26,000) for the five-day freedom celebrations poured crowds of Samoans and scores of foreign dignitaries. A special commemoration service was held for Western Samoa's revered, onetime resident, Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived out his last consumptive years in the islands. Also on hand were Tupua Tamasese and Malietoa Tanuma...
...Year's Day in Apia, Western Samoa's new flag-a Southern Cross on a red and blue field-was run up the pole, and a 19-gun salute rang out. But not a single gun was fired; since the few ancient artillery pieces in Apia were unsafe, police simulated the salute by exploding 19 charges of gelignite buried in the sand...
...Zealand has promised to bulwark Western Samoa's copra, cocoa and banana economy for three years, will train teachers for the island's educational program. With no army, no political parties, and no traffic jams, Western Samoa has little concern for the world beyond its shores. As proof, it committed the ultimate heresy in the eyes of other newly independent nations anxious for an immediate voice in the great-power struggles: it announced that it would not immediately seek membership...
...nearby American Samoa, administered by the U.S., Anthropologist Margaret Mead gathered material for her famous work, Coming of Age in Samoa...