Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fishing, he obviously missed the dry-fly casting in the frowned-upon (because of his heart) altitudes of Colorado's Rocky Mountain brooks. Restlessly, he watched sunlight sparkle on fish hauled into nearby boats, then cracked orders by radiotelephone for his escort craft, full of ever-hovering Secret Service, to find out what bait the others were using. A neighboring cruiser shared its successful white feather jigs, and another provided wire lines for deeper trolling, but nothing worked until, on a tip messaged from a third helpful sportsman, the President ran into a sliver of luck: off Sandy Point...
...private apartments of old friends-engineers, professional people, several Russian journalists. There was no case when anyone I tried to see refused to see me. This is remarkable. Most of those I saw, including party members, were quite willing to talk about anything at all, including concentration camps, the secret police and other things which in prewar days were never even mentioned...
...SECRET OF EASTER ISLAND (384 pp.)-Thor Heyerdahl-Rand McNally...
...statues might have been raised on their platforms by having a crew of eleven men gradually pry up a fallen idol with poles, and then insert rocks under it until it could be lifted to its feet. It took 18 days. Convinced that the mayor possessed a secret handed down through ten generations, Heyerdahl asked why Atan had never revealed it before. "No one asked me," said the mayor...
Soon, other Easter islanders were rushing to Heyerdahl with the contents of their "secret" ancestral caves-small stone skulls and images, artifacts and wood carvings-which he excitedly declares "were entirely different from all ancient and modern art hitherto known from Easter Island." Heyerdahl became an initiate of sacred rites. He crept round the island at night, eating chickens buried according to formula in earth ovens, muttering incantations to placate hostile aku-akus, shouting out ritual invocations such as: "Wizard Juan, stand up for good luck!" Only slowly did it dawn on Heyerdahl that the natives might be hipsters...