Word: easterlies
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...Brooks House with an announcement that "Brooks House Weekend" will be held on April 11 and 12. The Friday night festivities will consist of a theater party at "A Message for Margaret," now playing abroad. The climax of the weekend's activities will come on Saturday night, when an Easter Dance will cap the program...
...Santiago, ambitious Leftist Lautaro Ojeda, editor of the small bi-weekly Economista, noisily called attention to Easter Island, Chile's Polynesian possession. This year, when the Angamos made the annual voyage 1,900 miles west from Valparaiso bearing supplies and several officials, some Santiago newsmen went along. What they later told of the island's wonders, and its potentialities for growing sugar, pineapples and other tropical produce, roused Editor Ojeda to some of his hottest editorials...
...middle of the 19th Century, Peruvian pirates swept down on Easter and carried off many of its inhabitants to slavery. Smallpox killed hundreds of others. When the Chilean Navy moved in (in 1888), its sailormen found no more than 200 or 300 Polynesians, living among Easter's great stone images. For years, Easter Island's only visitors were chance whalers, occasional foreign warships, and archeologists trying to solve the mystery of the giant statues. One & all, the visitors liked the island's moderate climate and superb trade winds, but for vacations or all year preferred the lusher...
...Chilean Government decided that Easter Island would never be commercially valuable, and rented 53 of its 60 square miles (for $150 a month) to a subsidiary of the British trading firm of Williamson & Balfour...
Already Chile's Foreign Office was discussing with the Australians a South Pacific airline that would be sure to end Easter's pastoral isolation. The island's grassy downs, ten hours from Chile, would make a perfect way station...