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Listen: The Latin ProgramFour giant banyan trees.
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John D. MacArthur, wealthy insurance executive and developer treated sophisticated Palm Beach to a rare sight when he moved these four giant banyan trees by barge across Lake Worth. MacArthur hated to see the trees, which weighed up to 45 tons each, destroyed to make way for new construction, so he transplanted them to new locations by various ingenious methods.
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