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...away. Government officials at Amman at first viewed the report-and the cops-with suspicion. Then they went to have a look. Sure enough, there was a 40,000-square-meter chunk of mountain moving majestically down the valley in a slow-motion landslide. By nature's whimsy, fig trees that had been on one side of the road were now on the other, and bean fields had moved intact to new locations...
...washboard, and to which an Indian prince once wrote for a bronco (he got it). For a price, its customers can get every nicety of modern living-from ten varieties of outdoor grills and 90 types of coffeemakers to rhinestone dog collars (for the cocktail hour) and bronze fig leaves (for statues...
...first of TIME'S editorial "weekend") on the alert for cables from London. In Nyeri, Kenya, Correspondent Alexander Campbell, who had spanned a third of the African continent to accompany the royal tour, was writing a story about Elizabeth and Philip watching jungle animals from a fig tree. The royal couple had no engagements, so Wednesday was to be a free day. But at 10:37 Wednesday morning, London time, the news came from Buckingham Palace: King George VI had died during the night...
Tashlin tells the story of the world that was created, "brand-new, bright, and shiny," and the first two people on it, a 20th century man and woman. From here he traces man's evolution to "the Age of Civilization," where all men wear fig leaves and live in the Garden of Eden...
...Show. In Samoa, Henry Adams found it even harder to keep the mental fig leaf in place. He got mildly squiffed on a coconut brew called kawa. Assured that he wasn't a missionary, the native girls put on a dance. "Five girls came into the light, with a dramatic effect that really I never felt before. Naked to the waist, their rich skins glistened with coconut oil. Around their heads and necks they wore garlands of green leaves in strips, like seaweeds, and these too glistened with oil, as though the girls had come...