Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Denmark's Sculptor Jean Gauguin, 79, lives in a Copenhagen suburb, minds his own business, and seldom talks about his famed father, Painter Paul Gauguin, who went to Tahiti in 1891, died in the South Seas twelve years later. But recently, when a Danish art critic came to call, Jean molded a few details. "He was a small man," recalled Sculptor Gauguin. "His sailor's papers say 162 centimeters [5 ft. 3½ in.]. I believe he used high heels. He was rather boring and tedious, terribly ceremonious, difficult and fussy." Pressed for more, Jean said: "They also...
Steady old Keith has also sealed a bargain with adventure. During a typhoon the yacht smashes up on a coral reef near Tahiti, and Janice's parents are killed. As the child's trustee, Keith pieces together the puzzle of her missing legacy: the box of "trinkets" contained ?27,000 in diamonds smuggled out of England to dodge currency restrictions. Keith's conscience will not let him rest until he gets a look at the wreckage on that distant coral reef...
Married. Sterling Hayden, 43, frog-voiced cinemadventurer (The Eternal Sea) and seafarer who, defying a court order, took his four children to Tahiti on his 98-ft. schooner (The Wanderer), got a suspended sentence on his return; and Catherine McConnell, 28, Manhattan socialite divorcée; he for the third time, she for the second; in Sausalito, Calif...
...editions, speed of delivery is essential. With foreign printing plants and faster and farther-ranging air service, it is now possible to buy TIME in foreign capitals even before it reaches newsstands in some U.S. towns. Remote areas are still troublesome. After an irate subscriber in Tahiti complained that he was receiving his TIME in batches via bimonthly freighter from Nouméa in New Caledonia, TIME distribution men worked out a biweekly air-freight schedule; circulation in Tahiti has since climbed from 60 to 108. Readers in New Guinea, who long complained about slow service, now receive air-expressed...