Word: elephantic
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It Only Takes Two. Sylvester seldom peddles nightclub scandal, but likes to take a good-natured poke at such cafe society figures as the interior decorator for neurotics who "specializes in furniture made of overwrought iron" and the Sultan's son who "drives a foreign elephant." He is an...
In a Detroit nightclub one night last week, the floor show was led by Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams and Bridgeport Brass Co.'s President Herman W. Steinkraus. Wearing white smocks, the two bore down on a 12-ft.-by-8-ft. white fiberboard elephant, proceeded to...
The painting was to celebrate the way that Bridgeport's Steinkraus has turned a white elephant of a factory at nearby Adrian, Mich. into a healthy pink. Bridgeport Brass took over the plant 22 months ago (after five companies had leased it and given it up in rapid succession...
¶ A six-ton elephant heaves up a trunk as thick as a small tree, curls it back as delicately as a debutante's pinky, and with exquisite precision wipes a bit of foreign matter out of his eye.
Rival Among Ruins. Chief opposition comes from the Democratic Party, whose symbol is a trumpeting elephant, and whose nominal chief is Sihanouk's cousin, His Highness Prince Phorissara. Deep in the jungle, however, somewhere near the ruins of ancient Angkor Wat, hides the Democrats' moving spirit, an old...