Word: eucalyptuses
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...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...
Slicing through the rolling countryside near Palo Alto, and flanked by newly planted oak and eucalyptus trees, the low, two-mile-long structure could easily be mistaken for a new link in California's growing network of freeways. Instead of automobiles, however, it will handle streams of speeding electrons. It is Stanford University's linear accelerator, the newest tool in one of the newest and fastest-growing disciplines of science, high-energy physics. When it achieves full power and goes into operation this fall, the largest atom smasher in the world will give man a closer look...
...nirvana. It is Gardiner's Tennis Ranch, founded in 1958 by the Del Monte Lodge's former tennis pro when the notion struck him that "if nothing else interferes, you can really perfect your tennis game." Based in a California ranch house set in a stand of oak and eucalyptus trees that provided a windbreak, his tiny but flourishing operation has accommodations for 22 people, includes two swimming pools, seven
...Campos, vanished from his home in Algiers, reportedly to meet with anti-Salazar conspirators in Spain. Except for a few postcards, the last one mailed from the Spanish town of Badajoz on the Portuguese border, Delgado was not heard from again. Last month, two small boys passing through a eucalyptus grove near Badajoz stumbled upon two shallow graves, one containing the corpse of a man whose face and fingers were disfigured. In the other lay the half-naked body of a woman. Both had been murdered by heavy blows on the skull...
Some lived in Spanish castles and French cháteaux so opulently furnished that even the chamber pots were made of silver. Nearly every tree on the pampas was laboriously planted by man. The ultimate status symbol was a eucalyptus-tree drive leading up to the manse, and some of them ran straight as a string for seven miles...