Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barthel's claim provoked some scholarly skepticism, even though the onetime Wehrmacht cryptographer has shown skill at cracking ancient linguistic codes. Fifteen years ago, Barthel reported deciphering the so-called "talking boards" of Easter Island in the South Pacific. The Inca mystery was every bit as challenging. But he had invaluable help from Peruvian Archaeologist Victoria de la Jara. If there was a written language, she suspected, it must be hidden in the geometric designs (tocapus) found on priestly garments and wooden vessels...
...Rabbi of Bucharest. Such affronts to the militantly atheist ideology of Communism have been frequent occurrences since Ceauşescu came to power in 1965. High-ranking prelates are now elected to the Rumanian National Assembly. Some members of the Rumanian Communist Party's Central Committee regularly attend Easter services in Bucharest. Clergymen of every denomination receive part of their salaries from the state...
...Hemphill Travel Service offers a" 32-day round-the-world tour for 60 people flying in a chartered Convair 990 with stops in Copenhagen, Malagasy. New Guinea and other lands. The fare is $9,960. Lindblad Travel. Inc., which spec;alizes in the exotic, has organized tours to Easter Island and the Ross Sea area of the Antarctic. In the works now is a cruise to the Seychelles, "the forgotten islands" in the Indian Ocean. Some customers are canceling out of such tours, though, because they cannot afford to spend several thousand dollars in a recession...
...their leaders, Christopher Easter '73, president of the Freshman Council, called for a new meeting to "reassert the original premises of the strike, [including] that tactics are nonviolent...
...cloud of confetti blew into the air. Grimm doffed his cap. A groom led him over to the paddock where he posed for a picture with two squirming little girls in yellow Easter dresses. Flash, and it was over...