Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...developed countries equal to 1% of their gross national products. The lien-$17 billion-would go directly to poor lands, and would amount to only one-third of the West's annual increase in combined G.N.P., Dr. Ward contended. "It just means getting richer slower between Christmas and Easter, and that includes Lent. Let us tuck away in one corner of our Christian memory the delicious fact that the English-and French-speaking members of the Atlantic world spend $50 billion a year on drink and tobacco...
During the past seven years, the Exhibition Center has offered shows that have ranged through history and art, from medicine and mathematics to modern sculpture in papier-mâché. Previous visitors probably remember the reproduction of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel shown at Easter time, or the animated diorama of the First Continental Congress. This week we are opening "A Science Tune-In: New Horizons in Light and Sound," created with the assistance of Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...Rolling Hills, on Los Angeles County's Palos Verdes Peninsula, there are now 2,000 people and 4,000 horses. In Kansas City, teen-agers ride their horses through the streets after school. In Lakewood, Colo., an unprecedented 1,100 horsemen turned up for this year's Easter parade. In California alone, horse owners this year will spend $200 million equipping and feeding their mounts; nationwide, the cult of the horse may top $4 billion this year...
Leverett House obstetrician James Rivaldo stopped by and made one last desperate effort to save The Harvard Lampoon. He administered a cartoon featuring a gawky three-legged bird laboriously laying an Easter egg as large as itself. Out of the egg hatched a giraffe carrying a banner inscribed "Legalize Abortion." The Lampoon seemed instantly young and vital, and chuckles of observers could be heard in the Starr Book Shop. But suddenly The Harvard Lampoon convulsed into a ball, emitted a single gargantuan sob, and rolled, dead, into a wastepaper basket...
...folks who live in Union Grove, N.C.- that's between Harmony Love Valley, not far from the Brushy Mountains - believe in being right nice to outsiders. So, when thousands of visitors stream into town on Easter weekend for the annual Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, the residents go all out to accommodate them. Farmer Herman Speece lets herds of autos crowd the cows off his pasture. The boys at the firehouse move the truck out so that people who find it too cold in their cars or tents can spend the night on the firehouse floor. The ladies...