Word: fiji
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legitimate claim in the case of the English-language Fiji Times (circ. 5,100), which is printed only 600 miles west of the international date line, calls itself THE FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD EACH...
...Fiji island of Kandavu, Melanesian maidens are clustered atop a cliff, chanting a haunting air. Hearing the song, giant turtles rise from the sea below and one by one pop their heads above the surface to listen...
...Fiji is a $509.51 ticket from Pueblo, Colo., and 6,700 air miles away; Tanganyika and Atlanta are separated by 9,400 miles and $745.98 in air fare; Thailand and Passaic, N.J., by 10,500 miles and $694.46. Hard to get to, all those distant places-and expensive. Yet, in Pueblo, Atlanta and Passaic, and points between. Americans were feeling the irrepressible lure of exotic regions as they pored over maps and travel folders beckoning them to new horizons...
...Mexican bowl from the days before Christ bears the withered countenance of a fierce old crone; a majestic "ancestral figure" from New Ireland (near New Guinea) possesses the beard of a man and the breasts of a woman. One of the rarest pieces is an oil dish from the Fiji Islands: it looks like a modern sculpture of a punch-drunk goon...
...Alaska, Fiji and Tahiti, the waves became nothing more than wildly fluctuating tides. At Pago Pago they carried three houses into the bay; in New Zealand, sheep dogs chained to kennels were swept out to sea and drowned, while the waves' great ebb eerily exposed the wreck of a British frigate sunk in 1840 off Auckland...