Word: espiritu
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...Esalen in San Francisco and Big Sur, the institute's beautiful Pacific retreat south of Carmel, come 25,000 people a year-and if the pilgrim is turned away there, he can find similar sanctuaries in San Diego (Kairos), New York (Aureon, Anthos, GROW),Chicago (Oasis), Houston (Espiritu), Austin, Texas (Laos House), Washington, D.C. (Quest), Decatur, Ga. (Adanta), Calais, Vt. (Sky Farm Institute), and scores of other com munities. The groups can vary in size from half a dozen friends meeting in a big-city apartment to hundreds and even thousands of complete strangers at a psychological convention...
...named chief of the Thirteenth Air Force in the South Pacific, distinguished himself not only as a commander but as a castaway-he spent six days on a raft eating raw albatross and being parboiled by the tropic sun after a 6-17 crash at sea, near Espiritu Santo. He went to Italy, where he commanded the Fifteenth Air Force for 20 months, and then came back to the Pacific as commander of the Twentieth Air Force, whose 6-293 dropped the A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...Guadalcanal, the pet puppies of the G.I.s are now wild dogs; the British colonial officials again dress for dinner. At Espiritu Santo, once a huge U.S. base, now a placid French colony again, the natives wear T-shirts and tailor-made shorts. Said the chief of police when Michener departed: "You must be very sorry to leave so happy an island. Where everybody dances and gets drunk and the chief of police never makes a fuss...
Little Lost Child. New York Times Reporter Foster Hailey saw Patsy at orphanages on Espiritu Santo and Efate and wrote two stories about her. These were read by Mrs. Li's sister, Katherine, who was doing medical research in Manhattan. Although the name was spelled "Patsy Lee" in the stories, she was so struck by the coincidence that she sent the clippings to her sister in Singapore...
...quiet, palm-edged cemetery at Guadalcanal went the bodies of soldiers, sailors and marines once buried in the Russells, Espiritu Santo and Tulagi. Men who died as prisoners in scattered, Jap-held islets of the Marshalls, soldiers who fell at Makin, marines who died to take Roi and Namur will be moved to the cemetery on Ennylabegan, in the south of Kwajalein Atoll...