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Heartening as were the turnouts in Honolulu and Pago Pago, the President's greatest reception awaited him after he crossed the international dateline. At New Zealand's Ohakea Royal Air Force Station, a grimacing Maori with a poised spear advanced on the Johnsons in the traditional "friend or foe?" challenge. In tribute to the first U.S. President to visit his country, the warrior dropped two darts at his feet (Queen Elizabeth rates three...
...miniature Samoan canoes, he was accorded an impressive measure of approval-occasionally in spite of himself. Too often, the President seemed somewhat heavyhanded, particularly in his ponderous praise for Prime Minister Holt and his references to American affluence. He dwelt endlessly on his own limited wartime service in New Zealand and Australia; and his martial derring-do sounded more Mittyesque with each telling, until, at Melbourne's airport, he conjured up a picture of Navy Lieut. Commander Johnson side by side with the Aussies "in the trenches," battling the Japanese. Finally, at a Texas-sized barbecue...
...really ardent devotee of the Late Show, you will doubtless remember a picture called Green Dolphin Street, a Lana Turner-Van Heflin epic of the mid-'40's. In this one, Turner and Heflin are madly tempestuously in love amidst the turmoil of young growing New Zealand, complete with floods, forest fires, earthquakes, childbirth, and assorted variations on the seven deadly sins...
...Pacific as well as an Atlantic power, it seems appropriate that his 17-day, six-nation tour of Asia will be the most extensive ever undertaken by an American President. Departing next week, Johnson will cover 25,000 miles, enough to girdle the globe, with stops in New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea. Though he said last week that "no consideration has been given" to a Viet Nam visit, he will probably make a quick side trip to a secure U.S. air base, such as Danang, and to an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin...
...Considering the difficulties involved in getting seven heads of government to the same place at the same time, it is a near miracle that the conference is coming off at all. The date was revised three times so that it would not interfere with elections in Australia and New Zealand or South Viet Nam's Nov. 1 National...