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Last week, 177 years after Captain Cook's ships dropped anchor there, the tall, brown people of Tonga, still strong and vigorous, were enthusiastically celebrating a royal birthday: Salote, the strapping (6 ft. 2 in.) Queen of the Tongans and a Dame Commander of the British Empire, was 50 years...
...Tonga's 150 islands (total area: 250 sq. miles; pop. 45,000) for almost 3½ centuries. Tongans have no housing problem, no unemployment; they get free medical and dental care. Education (including English, Tongan history, singing and native arts) is compulsory from...
...really now, did TIME [March 15] have to freeze the salt in this part-time sailor's heart by calling Tonga, my 60-ft. oceangoing ketch in which Gregory Peck and Leslie Charteris were holidaying, a "cruiser...
Gregory Peck and Whodunit Writer Leslie (The Saint) Charteris, with their wives, were safe & sound in Miami after weathering a mild (46 m.p.h.) blow. Battling through rough water in their cruiser Tonga they had to anchor offshore and radio the Coast Guard to come and get them...
...cities, as always, the warnings of conflict and disorder were sharpest. Throngs of wartime jobholders were idle. In sweltering Calcutta, it took but the flick of a Moslem cigaret butt against the flanks of a sacred Hindu cow, or a Hindu tonga driver's bumping a Moslem child, to start a fight that would engulf the city. Last week Calcutta was still divided into "Pakistan" and "Hindustan" quarters, with strong points bristling with .barbed wire and machine guns. A Hindu driver dared not cross into a Moslem quarter, nor a Moslem into "Hindustan." In Bombay, where Hindus and Moslems...