Word: elephantic
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In a murky section of London that takes its name from the long-departed Elephant and Castle Tavern,* exuberant Teds rioted for three consecutive nights, crashed in the door of one theater, streamed through neighborhood streets and taverns, smashed windows, threw bottles, heaved automobiles over on their sides. In Manchester...
Realizing that homing Americans (some 75% of Shannon's westbound traffic) are often pinched for cash, the shop in 1954 started a mail-order business that allows tourists to bring in their purchases duty-free up to six months after their arrival in the U.S. Top-selling items: Irish...
Vientiane-capital of the least of the three nations carved out of French IndoChina-lay in its habitual half-slumber beside the Mekong River. It was the Buddhist Lent in Laos. Temple gongs bonged in the viscous humidity; saffron-robed monks strutted about beneath gaudy parasols or sat cross-legged...
Last March, two Texas amateur archaeologists. Advertising Man WTilson Crook Jr. and Railroad Engineer R. K. Harris, found a peculiar stone spear point in a patch of charcoal-blackened earth a few miles outside Dallas. Near it were bones of now extinct animals: camels, horses, an elephant.
Take, for example, the story called "The Elephant Matter" (thoughtfully translated from the Loma dialect by the weekly's Editor Margaret D. Miller, daughter of a Lutheran missionary): "The women went to fish in a stream and the elephants came after them. They chased them the whole day long...