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Giancana's decline began in 1959, when FBI agents planted a microphone somewhere amid the cans of tomato paste and olive oil in the back room of Giancana's Mob headquarters, the Armory Lounge in suburban Forest Park. For six years, agents listened to his most intimate business conversations, learning valuable information about the Mafia's organization and operations. In 1965 Giancana was jailed for refusing to answer the questions of a grand jury about Chicago's rackets. Released a year later, he fled to Mexico to escape further questioning and holed up in a walled...
...acre property that he bought in 1951, not long after coal miners had gouged and abandoned 800 acres of its coal-bearing land. Crisscrossed by enormous rock-strewn furrows, the land had no cover of vegetation, no wildlife-not even insects. With help from the U.S. Forest Service and Penn State University, Jones imported and planted carefully selected species of trees from all over the world, seeking out those that might grow in the acid, stony soil. He brought in evergreens-pines from Austria, Scotland and Norway, Douglas fir from the Pacific Northwest-because they hide the still-furrowed landscape...
...Have you heard about the tree that didn't know whether it was a son of a birch or a son of a beech?" But he is serious about spreading the word that trees can repair the land, and has even written and published a book, The New Forest, describing his experiences. The book is dedicated to the spirit of Johnny Appleseed, who "planted while others palavered." Those words could just as easily describe Turk Jones...
...took ten years for Dafal's stories about the forest people to reach the Filipino commissioner for minorities, a hard-working young millionaire named Manuel Elizalde Jr. Alarmed because logging companies were cutting roads through the Tasaday retreat, the official ordered Dafal to bring the tribe out for a meeting. Stone axes in hand, they stood like figures in an Erich von Däniken fantasy as Elizalde descended from the heavens in his helicopter. They immediately dubbed him Momo Dakel Diwata Tasaday (Big Sacred Bird of the Tasaday...
...father until he was old enough to go away to prep school, and like many an Englishman, he seems to owe more kindness and wisdom to his nanny than to his parents. The book shows greater nostalgia for the land around Crotch-ford, the family place near Ashdown Forest, than for the world's most famous stuffed animals. But yes, dear reader, the Six Pine Trees, the Hundred Acre Wood, Galleon's Lap (where Pooh and C.R. said their last goodbye), Christopher Robin's tree house and the Pooh-sticks Bridge were real. The book offers photographs...