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With the Indians' help, Córdova-Rios quickly learned to move soundlessly through the underbrush, alert to the forest's early-warning system: the cries of startled birds, the fetid scent of the deadly fer-de-lance, the click-click of an enraged wild boar. Xumu, the old chief of the Amahuaca, also instructed him in jungle medicine. The stem of the paka nixpo plant, when chewed, prevented tooth decay for years; the extract of the ayahuasca vine was especially prized for producing visions that, Córdova-Rios says, actually enhance human intelligence. After many adventures...
...other signs that were all around me. Six kilometers from Skoun, my eye caught a South Vietnamese gunship making lazy circles over what had to be the city. I watched carefully now, but saw only the plane. Then I saw them, out the left window, standing in the heavy underbrush by the side of the road...
...Deputy Sheriff Christopher Look, who had spotted the car a moment earlier at the intersection of the dirt road and the paved road leading to the Edgartown ferry. "It would have been a very logical step," writes Olsen, "for Kennedy to stop the car between the high walls of underbrush and tell Mary Jo to circle back and pick him up in a few minutes if the policeman did not give chase." According to Olsen's theory, Mary Jo, a foot shorter than Kennedy and barely able to see over the steering wheel, continued down the dirt road, unable...
When the patrol commander squeezed off some warning shots, most of the Mafiosi melted into the mountain woods. The rest, taking cover behind rocks or in the scraggy Calabrian underbrush, opened up with pistols, shotguns and hunting rifles, wounding seven cops and taking two injuries of their own in a half-hour firefight. When it was all over, the police gathered up a sackful of weapons, 35 cars that had been abandoned on goat paths, and 21 gunmen aged 19 to 75. But the pezzi grossi (big shots) got away...
...with that revelation. speculation that the UN delegation would change its name to the "Good Ship Lollipop" faded into the underbrush...