Word: jacaranda
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...threat of summer heat already lies heavy over Cairo and the rest of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt. The city police have changed their blue flannel uniforms to summer whites. Jacaranda trees are blooming richly purple in suburban Heliopolis, remnants of the district's lost elegance. While the triple peaks of the pyramids of Giza shimmer on the horizon, stately feluccas sail down the Nile as silently as they have done for centuries. Overhead, hawks wheel lazily in gyres. The pace of the people in their flowing gallabia robes, never very fast, has grown a step or two slower...
...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...
Blue & Orange. South Africa has three capitals, one each in three of the four separate states that joined together in 1910. The administrative capital is Pretoria, a city of wide avenues and blue jacaranda blossoms in the onetime Boer Republic of the Transvaal. The Supreme Court is located in Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State. Parliament meets in Cape Town, oldest city in the republic and home of most of its 1,747,000 "Coloreds" (mulattoes), who once enjoyed almost the same rights and privileges as the whites...
...world can match the sun-drenched affluence that Rhodesia's hardy settlers have achieved for themselves. Lions still command the distant escarpments, and elephants, baboons and rhinos forage in the valleys of rivers bulging with hippos. But on rolling high veld, brushed with elephant grass and flowering jacaranda trees, the whites have carved out a tidy empire of modern tobacco farms and cattle ranches that has brought modest prosperity to the land. Taxes are low and so are prices; and, for whites, wages are high enough to permit all but the most menial workers their own cars, homes...
...Cook & I." That was 18 months ago, and Smith has done little but prepare for U.D.I, ever since. He seldom entertains, usually eats a sparse lunch at home with his wife, and spends as much time as possible inside guarded gates of No. 8's jacaranda-lined grounds. No major legislation has emerged from his tour as Prime Minister, but to promote independence he has flown to London twice, held a national referendum, an indaba (meeting) of African chiefs (all government-paid) and a full-scale parliamentary election (in which the Front won all 50 white seats...