Word: easterly
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Story's attack on Chariots of the Gods?, etc., is a series of bull's-eyes scored at 3 ft. Von Däniken's notions make use of ancient artifacts that he feels are proof of an extraterrestrial influence in history: the massive Easter Island statues, for instance, and the mysterious lines extending for miles on the Peruvian coastal plain at Nazca that he argues were landing strips for celestial spaceships. Story easily demonstrates that Von Däniken's use of details and overstretched imaginings are on a par with those of children seeing...
That was a natural assignment for Cook, since he was the first to chart large areas of the Pacific (among his discoveries: New Zealand, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Easter Island). Trouble was that the Navy had retired Cook from sea duty last year and made him a captain of the Greenwich Hospital for pensioned sailors, a sinecure that pays ?230 a year, as well as a free suite of rooms, firewood and candles. But Cook, still only 47, was restless. To a friend he confided: "A few months ago, the whole southern hemisphere was hardly big enough...
Blood Cleansing. The Pied Piper of this international youth brigade was born into a Presbyterian family in Chongju-Gun, in northern Korea. He attended a pentecostal church, and on Easter Sunday of 1936, he reports, Jesus appeared and told him to carry out his unfinished task by completing man's salvation. Moon got married in 1944 but left his pregnant wife behind in Seoul to go to preach in the north. There, in 1948, he was imprisoned...
...Italians are coming, the Italians are coming-to New York City. Their beachhead: Fifth Avenue, the home of Saks, Tiffany and the Easter Parade. Their mission: to plant the red-white-and-green flag of Italian luxury products-from $50 silk scarves to $150,000 necklaces-profitably in American turf. At last count, in an eleven-block stretch of Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, there were eleven Italian botteghe, each one apparently striving to be the most exclusive shop on its block. "Fifth Avenue?" asks the proprietress of one recent arrival. "Oh, you must mean La Quinta Strada...
...only under special circumstances, and bishops frown on casual intercommunion. At St. Thomas Aquinas parish in Ames, some of the town's many Protestants show up occasionally at Communion and are not turned away ("So many of them believe as we do," explains Pastor James Supple). Last Easter the Catholic and Episcopal chaplains at an Eastern university assisted a Lutheran minister in celebrating the midnight Eucharist-in a Dutch Reformed church. Catholics are generally enjoying a new freedom to attend Protestant and Jewish services. "In Oklahoma, we got into the habit of going down to a black revival church...