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...battle against Dutch elm disease continues, but the front grows broader every year. A fungus borne by tiny bark beetles that kills the stately Ulmus americana by causing its circulatory system to clog up, the disease first arrived in the U.S. from Europe in the early 1930s. In the past few years, it has crossed the Rocky Mountains and reached California and the eastern portions of Oregon, where it threatens to spread as rapidly as it has in the rest of the nation. At present, the fungus is killing trees at a rate of 400,000 or more every year...
...Inge might have written the script for the affair. The V.F.W. color guard lined up in the center of the street in front of the Art Nouveau county courthouse, hard by the Russell County farm bureau. The high school band was almost in tune as it entertained under the elm and locust trees. The ladies of the town grilled hot dogs and served potato chips and salad on paper plates. The sun was full and hot as the crowd of about 2,000 gathered to welcome back the local boy who was bringing to town the President...
...most residents want to leave the clean, well-kept neighborhood, the litter-free streets, the bungalows with freshly painted shutters and the largely crimeless environment. The median income is $15,000, and houses average $30,000 in value. Youngsters play in safety on the elm-shaded streets, and families frequently leave their car,doors and garages unlocked. Observes Housewife Gail Cichanowski, 28: "People feel this is one of the last really good white areas in the city...
...Month Club soon followed. Robert Redford's company has just bought the film rights. Judith Guest still does not have an agent, but with any luck she stands to collect something like half a million dollars. Will the resulting cash and carrying-on spoil things in the big, elm-shrouded house in the Minneapolis suburb where the author lives with her husband, three sports-mad sons aged 16, twelve and eleven, and a female malamute named Pax? "God, I hope not," says Ms. Guest. "I like...
...contest was really a qualifying round to fill the four remaining positions in tomorrow's critical tri-match with Princeton and Yale at New Haven, the Elm City. Harvard's number one and two players, Alex Vik and Spence Fitzgibbons, didn't compete in order to give more golfers a chance to play...