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Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh...
Admirers of Mrs. Lindbergh's style, which tends toward what might be called Ladies' Magazine Transcendental, will be charmed enough by this sort of thing. Others may read on until they confront a footnote to real and romantic history-the meeting of Anne and Charles Lindbergh, who stayed with her father, U.S. Ambassador Dwight Morrow, and the family in Mexico City in 1927 just after "the Lone Eagle's" famous flight. "What did I expect?" Anne asks her diary. "A regular newspaper hero, the baseball-player type." What she found was "a tall, slim boy in evening...
...first Lindbergh seemed interested only in Anne's sister Elizabeth. Even in her diary Anne called him Colonel L. She confided unhappily: "I want to be married, but I never, never will." Certain prides and prejudices needed working out: "He never opens a book, does he? How that separates him from our world. It is hideous to think about-a hideous chasm." The courtship actually began during a special sightseeing flight, Lindbergh at the controls, which resulted in a characteristically girlish epiphany: "Clouds and stars and birds- must have been walking with my head down looking at the puddles...
Plug for a Park. On occasion, W.W.F. members have used their prestige to help stem the destruction of endangered species. Charles Lindbergh singlehanded stopped the slaughter of the blue whale off Peru in 1966 by going directly to its President and persuading him to order a stay on the hunting of the species by all whalers. Prince Bernhard has pressured the heads of state of several countries to become more active conservationists. When he visited Ethiopia a few years ago, he sent advance notice that he wanted to visit a national park-knowing full well that none existed in Ethiopia...
...climbing the 88-ft. observation tower to admire the view. To the east is a splendid vista of the traffic-jammed freeway, exhaust smoke billowing into the air, while across the bay is Sea World, an aquarium aswarm with tourists and back-dropped by San Diego's busy Lindbergh International Field. Inside the camp's palisades, the pace is equally lively. Cars roll endlessly along the asphalt alleys while children splash in the tepid water...