Word: ladybird
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...newsmen, her own twelve-man entourage, and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, she floated (with paddle) down eleven miles of the shallow Rio Grande in Texas' Big Bend National Park to dramatize her beautify-and see-the-U.S.A. campaigns. Everything came off more or less swimmingly as the ladybird watchers went over the side in search of closeups or simply fell off, like the stretch-pantsed newswoman who jammed her parasol at a ranger's eye as she went under. But the press got their waterlogged copy out, which was the whole idea anyway. As the White House...
...When she was two, her Negro nurse landsaked, "Lawd, she's purty as a ladybird," and the name stuck. A ladybird, as it is called in the Southwest, is not a bird at all, but a black-dotted little beetle, otherwise known as a ladybug...
...floor-length sheath of pink and white straw lace, wore just one piece of jewelry: a feather-shaped diamond clip in her bouffant hair. At a signal, the Marine Band's dance orchestra in the East Room struck up Mr. Wonderful; Vice President Lyndon Johnson and his wife Ladybird joined the Kennedys in leading the first dance. Afterward, Jack stood at one end of the ballroom greeting guests while Jackie toured the floor with a battalion of successive partners. The verdict on her footwork, as announced by Florida's Senator George Smathers: "She's divine...
Together, the two children play at the reality they know best: sudden and violent death. Solemnly, at "an old mill presided over by an ancient owl, they build a little cemetery. There they first bury Paulette's puppy, then a chick, a mole, a ladybird, a rat, a lizard and a cockroach (which Michel impales on a pen while imitating the terrifying sound of a German dive bomber). They even steal crosses from a real cemetery for their animal burial ground...
...chemical is sometimes, however, destructive of some of man's best friends. At the University of California, when walnut trees were sprayed to kill the destructive codling moth, the beneficent ladybird beetles were killed too. Result: a horde of walnut aphids, normally eaten by the ladybirds, fell on the defenseless trees and stripped their foliage...