Word: aku
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the very possibility of consistent and linear thought. Yes, lies in boxes stacked one by one along the ocean in a strip twenty miles long. Neon-emblemed inns and palaces, similar as a strip of concrete dolls notched with the original names of romance glowing from pastel tubes. Aku-Tiki, Capri, Ritz, Rivera, Bali Hai, Lodi. Still the ever more poignant essence remained, barely visible to this feeble romantic shell, his timbers charred by the explosion of the last decade and more recently ravaged by the imperative of honesty unleashed by the uncloaking of lies, the blind rat revealed...
Heyerdahl's account of the voyage was translated into more than 60 languages, sold more than 20 million cop ies. In 1955 he made an expedition to Easter Island, 2,350 miles west of Chile, and another bestseller, Aku-Aku, resulted. But then he bought a 13th century terra cotta chateau above the Ital ian Riviera and settled down to a comfortable life of sun-kissed scholarship. Had Thor Heyerdahl become adventurer emeritus? Not quite...
...least nine huge U.S. corporations are foreign-controlled. The Netherlands-British Royal Dutch/Shell Group controls 69% of Shell Oil; Belgium's Petrofina owns two-thirds of American Petrofina; AKU of The Netherlands controls American Enka; The Netherlands-British Unilever owns both Lever Brothers and Thomas J. Lipton; Distillers Corp.-Seagrams of Canada has Joseph E. Seagram; Italy's Olivetti company is outright owner of Olivetti Underwood; the Swiss Nestle Co. holds one-third of Libby, McNeill & Libby, and Canada's George Weston Limited has 57% of National...
Combative Nature. One morning last week, the KGB silenced Amalric's detractors. Four cars bearing a total of 14 men pulled up outside the author's country cottage near the village of Aku-lovo, 85 miles southeast of Moscow. Two men knocked on the door. They wanted to inquire, they explained, whether Amalric and his beautiful Tartar wife Giselle planned to vote in the next elections. Once inside, the two identified themselves as KGB agents and beckoned to their twelve colleagues...