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...Eastern, which as recently as 1963 was shaky enough to ask for a $33 million subsidy, got a chance to change from a domestic carrier into a major international airline, giving Pan Am its first U.S.-flag competition in such South Pacific areas as New Zealand, Tahiti and the Fiji Islands-not from U.S West Coast cities (which Pan Am serves), but from eleven mainland points plus Mexico City and Acapulco...
...ponders some escape. After all, Sherwood Anderson was 36 when he quit running an Ohio paint factory and started writing fiction. Gauguin was a sometime Parisian broker of 43 when he ran off to paint and wench in Tahiti. Should he dye his hair, have an affair, get divorced, quit his job? But how can he sacrifice that pension, that company-paid insurance? What girl wants him? What new employer...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Gauguin in Tahiti: The Search for Paradise." Sir Michael Redgrave is the voice of Gauguin in this special, which focuses on the years spent by the artist in the South Seas...
...fleet and capable of carrying 16 missiles shot from underwater; before the end of the year, it hopes to test-fire one of the sea-to-land missiles to be stocked on these submarines. Next year, France plans to test its first H-bomb at its new range off Tahiti. If successful, this research will give France warheads of megatonic power...
...make you think of that tiny piece of Acrilan acrylic knit as a "sizzle of orange with hot pink." For "a certain kind of woman who'd like to retrace Gauguin's steps," Peck & Peck was arguing that you didn't have to go to Tahiti to wear an island-print bikini...