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...especially composed for the newly arrived Queen: "The daughter of the Chief is ringing her ankle bells. She is our Queen today. As a seabird, she has come to us." Clad in ice-blue, Elizabeth smiled in apparent delight, but in the thick shadows clouding the groves of moonlit acacia trees just beyond her, squads of hard-faced Negro policemen, brought over from Kenya (the better to recognize familiar faces), prowled ceaselessly in search of Mau Mau intruders...
...that night the baby elephant stood tethered while Oberjohann sat in a giant acacia tree, to wait for the mother's attack and watch the proceedings. At 2 a.m., "the night turned into a roaring, crashing hell." The acacia tree was torn from its roots, and Oberjohann was hurled 15 feet into some thorn bushes. In a few minutes, he says, the mother smashed 14 acacias and some 50 other trees, trampling them almost level with the ground...
Humbler and more complete than the city ruins is the destruction of the grass-roofed villages. They have vanished-more than 12,000 of them-into heaps of bluish-grey ashes. Bleak stone walls still stand in front of them, and mulberry and acacia bushes, covered with heavy dust...
...highhanded but benevolent despot, he has also given his spare, dry, upland Chinghai province (pop. 1,500,000) some of China's best roads, extensive irrigation works and a spectacular reforestation program. Over 13 years he supervised the planting of millions of willow, poplar and acacia seedlings to shade the roads, check riverbank erosion, supply fuel. "Even when I was a little boy," he once explained, "I liked to plant trees. In Chinghai, trees mean greenery and water, life and abundance. I sought to persuade my kin and friends to plant trees. I had no power then and made...
Residents of the two Radcliffe houses invaded last Thursday did not bring charges against Gallagher. Fingerprint tests on the second story window at 6 Acacia st. out of which the prowler jumped failed to establish Gallagher's guilt in the intrusion...