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Tarquin Olivier, 22-year-old son of Cinemactor Sir Laurence, uncovered a graceful "D.L."-which the 19th century Kilroy had mentioned in his journal-carved in the trunk of a giant baobab tree. Doubtful at first, African scholars examined photographs of the find, agreed that the presumption was correct...
...hardly see the people for the planes. But her semi-abstract sculptures come to terms with the wood in witty and sensuous ways. Woman and Child (see cut), hunched forms of a mother and her papoose, seem in a separate world, somewhere between the nature of a tree trunk and that of people. Why did she quit business for art? Says she, elliptically: "I like putting butter on turkeys. I like peeling and feeling things. The same with my sculpture. You find a big old root''arid have to marry it to shape your preconceived form...
...Soto will have a forward-sloping hood, lower front fenders, new grille, bumpers and trunk lid. Dodge, Chrysler and Imperial will get much the same "dart" treatment...
...days-to kill Lebanese Premier Sami Solh. The sirens of Sami Solh's motorcade escorting him back to town from his mountain villa sounded down the canyon, and one of the men set his hand on the plunger of a battery box whose wires led down into the trunk of a disabled Ford parked beside the narrow road...
Belgian consul general in Damascus, and found 33 submachine guns, 37 pistols, a time bomb and 1,500 rounds of ammunition jampacked in the trunk. De San, a millionaire eccentric who admitted making ten such trips in the last few weeks, was found to be carrying riot directions fc-r persons in Beirut...