Word: elephantitis
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Toward her husband Jackie is equally protective. "When somebody cuts Jack, she is unforgiving," says Ethel. "She has an elephant's memory." When Kennedy's political activities began to mount, Jackie worried "because he never would eat lunch, and kept getting thinner." One day her butler turned up...
Along the jungle battlefront in Laos, not much was happening. Soldiers lounged barefoot within stockades built of sharpened bamboo stakes-thought to be protection enough in a country where the elephant charge has fallen out of fashion and the tank has not yet been introduced. But the cold-war clamor...
Sometime Duke. "They thought I'd enter the church riding on an elephant," cracked Jimmy. He did not blame Fabiola, whom he piously describes as a "lay saint." The trouble lies with two other sisters, who, said Jimmy, spitefully accuse him of confiding to newsmen that Fabiola looked like...
Physical Effects. Doctors agree with Physicist Knudsen that noise is a hazard to physical health. The most obvious danger: deafness. "The Good Lord in his mercy provided the majestic elephant and the lowly ass with ear flaps that would at least partially close the ear canal," observes Knudsen. "But man...
Men have marched under many a banner bearing a strange device, from the "Don't Tread on Me" serpent of the American Revolution to the three-headed elephant of Laos. This year 18 new flags were unfurled by the emergent nations of Africa and the Mediterranean. Cyprus boasts the...