Word: sequoia
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...charity). When authorities tried to honor him by planting a delicate Japanese pine in his name, though, Trump balked. "He went wild because he felt the tree was wrong, a hunchback," recalls Parks Commissioner Henry Stern. "He wanted it pulled out. He wanted something like a sequoia...
...Richard Nixon Sequoiadendron giganteum became so gnarled and twisted that it choked itself to death right on the South Lawn of the White House. A sad loss, but Gardener Irvin Williams has his eye on another sequoia to replace it. Thus does the life cycle on the White House grounds go on even as in the political world. The Benjamin Harrison Quercus coccinea dropped a limb over the fence onto Pennsylvania Avenue the other night. Nobody was underneath, thank goodness. But be wary. A 100-year-old scarlet oak has some privileges when it suddenly wearies. Nonetheless, the trunk...
When one of its planes crashes, the Air Force is usually quick to come forward with details of the accident. But after an aircraft went down during night operations near Bakersfield, Calif., last week, the military cordoned off the crash site just outside the Sequoia National Forest and refused to allow planes to fly above the wreckage. Tight-lipped spokesmen would do little more than acknowledge that a pilot had been killed...
...told him of my difficulties. "I don't know where to go," I said. "Everyone you trip over is a reporter from the Sequoia Newsbreak...
...England! - was everywhere, walking on red carpets. No one cared that she looked unhip in her blue matron's outfits. Fame, especially enduring fame, is the California dream, and she is transcendently famous without even trying, the embodiment of an institution as old and grand as a giant sequoia. Los Angeles Electrician Raymond Pratt, 32, waited three hours to glimpse the Queen briefly. "She is one of the few things in life that is still sacred," he said. Her presence Stateside, in any event, is special: no reigning British monarch had been to the U.S. at all until...