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...Tiny Easter Island is only 14 miles long and 1,300 miles from the nearest populated island ("farther from anywhere than anywhere...
...newest threat is the tourist invasion, bringing in its train unsupervised treasure hunting and souvenir collecting. Before it is too late, Father Sebastian pleads, a fund must be set up to uncover and restore the island's largely uninvestigated monuments. "Fully restored," says Tour Director Lars-Eric Lindblad, "Easter Island will equal anything in Egypt." Says Anthropologist Dr. William Mulloy, an associate of Father Sebastian's: "If some sort of control is not exercised, within a decade the island will be lost...
...Sofar proved not so good. When a demolition crew opened her sea cocks, the unmanned R.L.S. drifted out of sight before a brisk sou'easter and lingered for 16 hours instead of disappearing from radar screens in four hours, according to schedule. Where she finally came to rest, nobody is quite sure, and the waterlogged hulk of the R.L.S. is almost "transparent" to sonar blips used to locate submarines. But it seems likely that she lies in about 3,500 ft. of water-not deep enough to activate the fuses. Because the added pressure of a vessel passing overhead...
Compared with Stone's complex book, this slender first novel is barely more than a vignette, an Easter Sunday in a Pittsburgh slum. Eddie, a young Negro, returns from a year spent kicking the heroin habit in a Southern institution. Filled with tentative hope, he quickly finds that home has the same old tensions and temptations, that he is in the same old "black bag." In a foul tavern he encounters an alcoholic teacher on the verge of a breakdown. Though Eddie at first pegs him as a sentimental phony, their encounter grows from hostility to some understanding...
...head, proceeds to go to Maine's Republican Party. The tiny museum drew 900 visitors the first two days, including some indulgent socialites and many adamant Yankees who were pleased neither by the abstractionist paintings nor by the price of admission. Said one baffled down-Easter: "It's 100% rubbish, but I still like the Governor...