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...Milwaukee she spoke to the park executives, accepted a gift of 25 hawthorn trees to be planted in District of Columbia parks, helped to dedicate a new three-domed horticultural conservatory, planted a chestnut seedling in a park. Aware that she was in the city that beer helped make famous, she tactfully omitted mentioning discarded beer cans when she called litter "one of the greatest detractors of beauty," then praised the beer industry for urging customers to "stow away, don't throw them away...
Summer rains swept the green countryside of the Ile-de-France. Splashing sheets of water, Charles de Gaulle's presidential cortege barreled along the cobbled lanes under sodden chestnut and plane trees, past grey stone farmhouses and into crossroad hamlets where the faithful waited-schoolchildren holding limp paper flags, white-haired women huddled under umbrellas, village mayors draped with tricolored sashes of office. Disdainfully hatless and coatless, the rain plastering his hair to his pink scalp, De Gaulle plunged into the crowds, grasping outstretched hands...
...MESLAY (June 28-July 4), near Tours, uses as an auditorium a massive barn built by monks in 1220. The excellent acoustics of the barn's oak and chestnut structure will set off performances by Russian Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, Moscow's Borodin Quartet, and London's Royal Opera singing Britten's Curlew River...
...Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's stately home near Charlottesville, Lady Bird presented a seedling from a White House white horse chestnut and received a slight blow to the ego when William S. Hildreth, president of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, didn't recognize her as she started down the reception line. When his wife later chided him, he lamely explained: "Well, I didn't know. She wasn't wearing a name...
...shoot first and don't ask questions afterward because what is one life anyhow. But it also provides a kind of Paris-by-night tour-through the sewers, over the roofs, and into transvestite dens. For some Parisian reason, all the bad guy's spies are chestnut vendors. Another nice Gallic touch: as the heroine is about to be chained to the wall and whipped by a neo-Nazi sadist, she takes time out to lament that she missed her lunch...