Word: eucalyptus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cotton Point is ideal for the privacy-loving Nixons. Shielded from the road by a stand of eucalyptus trees, the five-acre estate offers both solitude and convenience. A newly built private road links it to the adjacent San Mateo Point Coast Guard station, where communications facilities and private buildings have been set up to accommodate the staff members who will accompany him to summer quarters. The station's ball field has been converted into a helicopter pad. Only a ten-minute chopper flight separates Nixon from El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, where Air Force...
...when the Fellows decided to start a magazine last fall to reach a wider audience than is generally found at their home on Eucalyptus Hill, the publication was expected merely to promote the Center's more passionate, loftily liberal concerns...
...area and university patrons gathered while Chancellor Franklin Murphy dedicated the campus' new 4½-acre outdoor sculpture court, which contains 27 examples of 20th century works. No other campus in the U.S. can boast one like Los Angeles'. In an outdoor setting lush with sycamore, pine, eucalyptus, jacaranda and coral trees, U.C.L.A. students can now stroll and study among Archipenko's Queen of Sheba, Calder's stabile Button Flower, four Matisse bas-reliefs, a Chadwick, Henry Moore's Reclining Figure and many, many more...
Speed & Acid. Utopia on the Bay is bounded at one end by the greenery of Golden Gate Park, split down the middle by the fragrant eucalyptus trees of "The Panhandle." Tourist buses have already made The Haight-Ashbury (its residents insist on the definite article) a regular stop. Down the center of Psychedelphia runs Haight Street (which hippies hope to have renamed "Love Street"); the region itself-once the residence of such formidable families as the silver-mining Floods and the couture-vending Magnins-is studded with steamboat-Gothic mansions and psychedelic gathering places like the "I and Thou" coffee...
...Australia 150 miles to the north as a market garden, raising crisp fruits and vegetables on its tidy farms and in its verdant apple orchards. Inland from the quaint, Georgian-styled capital of Hobart (pop. 116,000) the island is windy and rugged, forested with towering oaks and giant eucalyptus trees, which rank among the world's tallest hardwoods. Last week those forests brought Tasmania some unwanted renown: the most disastrous fire in Australian history...