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After completing 22 circuits of the world, astronaut Gordon Cooper plopped down into the Pacific. Two days later he was flown to Honolulu, the nearest American city, and was taken for a ride.

A quarter of Hawaii’s population lined the parade route to wave flags and to pelt the space hero with plumeria and ginger blossoms. After the parade Cooper was guest of honor at an exclusive garden party given by Hawaii’s governor, Jack Burns, and among the guests Burns pressed upon Cooper was the most notorious identified Communist in Hawaii, Jack Hall, and Mrs. Hall, an identified Communist in her own right. Hall is the Hawaii boss of Harry Bridges’ International Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU).

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After completing 22 circuits of the world, astronaut Gordon Cooper plopped down into the Pacific. Two days later he was flown to Honolulu, the nearest American city, and was taken for a ride.

A quarter of Hawaii’s population lined the parade route to wave flags and to pelt the space hero with plumeria and ginger blossoms. After the parade Cooper was guest of honor at an exclusive garden party given by Hawaii’s governor, Jack Burns, and among the guests Burns pressed upon Cooper was the most notorious identified Communist in Hawaii, Jack Hall, and Mrs. Hall, an identified Communist in her own right. Hall is the Hawaii boss of Harry Bridges’ International Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU).