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...larger headlines in the Boston Chronicle of July 25, 1768 read: STRAYED. The copy beneath told of a lost "small red & white spotted cow"; the owner offered a reward of $2. Another item, headlined PROVIDENCE, told of that town's dedication of a "Great Elm Tree" to serve as its symbolic "Tree of Liberty." While digesting these and other colonial bulletins, a visitor to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington can wander backward or forward in American journalism to examine, say, the first regularly published newspaper in America (Boston News-Letter, 1704), or see news photos...
...ELM SEED PUPPET THEATER. Would you believe they alchemize silence and slow time into art? Neither would I, but who are we to question The Real Paper? Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass...
...other swimmers and gymnasts. But the Olympic athletes were not the only young visitors attracting attention in Munich last week. The Olympics is, after all, a Jungenfestspiel, and the jungen have flocked to the merry Bavarian city by the thousands. They gathered under the spreading elm and oak trees flanking the emerald-green lawns of the Englisher Garten, playing their guitars, smoking hand-crafted cigarettes and generally ignoring what a young Iowa girl called "that silly sports effort." Munich's gala atmosphere has also drawn an older, more pecunious group: the international set, complete with titled leaders. Ensconced in carefully...
...Schaffner & Marx, with burnt orange by Arrow. Their jaws seemed firmer, teeth bigger and whiter, complexions clearer, shoulders wider, backs straighter than the Democrats', and they had handshakes likes vises. Wandering across the convention floor was like strolling down Main Street with some side excursions up its suburban companion, Elm Street. There was the clean fragrance of Mennen's Skin Bracer and the soft clucks of mothers with their glasses hanging from chains around their necks...
...years it has been used as a fungicide to protect roses and tomatoes. What is new-officially approved only this March by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-is its application to Dutch elm disease. The problem now is to persuade communities and private tree owners to undertake the effort and expense ($75 per tree per year) needed to make the treatment work. When John Hansel, executive director of the Elm Research Institute, took the cure to Denver last February, the mayor refused to see him. The city had its own method for treating the disease-simply cut down and burn...