Word: ginkgo
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...military, Stennis was guest of honor at a reception given by the National Guard Association one night last week. Afterward, he drove his 1973 Buick sedan back to his $50,000 two-story brick home in one of Washington's better residential districts. Lined with tall ginkgo trees but lit by only the pale yellow glow of corner street lights, the Northwest Washington neighborhood has known little crime...
SINCLAIR. For the kids, Disney and dinosaurs practically carry the fair. It's the reptiles that have invaded Sinclair's ginkgo tree grove. The saurus family-Ankylo, Stego, Tyranno and big brother Bronto -stand around as if they couldn't believe that mammals had inherited the earth. While the others gnash their teeth, Bronto -all five tons of him-just stands there and blinks...
Only a few other trees now living, including the redwood of California and the ginkgo, are of such ancient origin...
...year. The Vanderlips were neighbors; the children went to the Vanderlips' progressive school. From the porch of the house in Scarborough Louise "could look off across the Hudson deep into orange hills." Honeysuckle smothered the rickety porch railing. There were white birches in the yard, a ginkgo tree by the windows. But misfortune followed so relentlessly it might have been planned. Once the Japanese butler at the Vanderlips' swimming pool asked her: "Why your little boy, he lie at bottom of pool so long for?" Rodney was two hours getting the water pumped...
During their long survival into the modern world, the leaves of the ginkgo changed until they are now almost invariably two-lobed and kidney-shaped. In the Cretaceous period, 100,000,000 years ago, the leaves almost invariably were wedge-shaped. Last week the Smithsonian Institution announced that Dr. Roland W. Brown had discovered, in a park near the White House, a ginkgo with leaves of this Cretaceous type. "It can hardly be looked upon otherwise," said the Smithsonian, "than as an atavism or throwback over a vast expanse of time...