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Lippold says that his pylon is really a "worldtree," a "three-dimensional statement of the world unity idea." The main branches of Lippold's tree are "reaching to the four points of the compass," its trunk digs down into the earth, its extremities are "still growing, unclouded, in space." The whole thing symbolizes "continuous growth...
...that the cause is always the same type of injury or shock. In fact, said Dr. Ingalls, the trouble with researchers who have been looking for a single, simple cause is that they were like the three blind men describing an elephant: one found it all foot, another all trunk, the third all tail...
Once ashore, the voyagers were soon far too busy to lose themselves in the drowse of flowers. From Florida to the Great Lakes, mosquitoes almost ate them alive ("How cruelly they persecuted us," cried Champlain). In the brushless eastern forests, mammoth trees, standing almost trunk to trunk, rose to heights of 80 feet before branching, and gave one man "a particularly unpleasant, anxious feeling, which is excited irrestibly by the continuing shadow and the confined outlook." Rattlesnakes made the white men turn still whiter with fear. "As for the Buff [alo]," wrote 17th Century Great Lakes Explorer Pierre Radisson...
They were ready to accompany the President to a dedication ceremony at Arlington Cemetery. Luckily, Zimmerman had his Rolleiflex camera hanging around his neck. Most of the other photographers had stowed their equipment in the trunk compartment. When what sounded like "firecrackers" proved to be gunfire, Zimmerman hit the street, arriving at Blair House in time to make a shot of one policeman falling to the pavement on Pennsylvania Avenue. He was the first photographer to get his camera into action. Not far behind him were Reporters Win Booth and Ed Darby, of TIME'S Washington bureau. Darby...
With the eight-foot zombie were all his worldly possessions: a hollow palmetto trunk tuned to b flat, a bulbous cast-iron kettle, three Hopalong Cassidy dolls and a package of insect-mounting pins, and a shrunken cannibal head...