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...still advertise such dubious items as rosebushes at 250 apiece, or cut-rate, "guaranteed hardy" hedge plants that do not survive the U.S. mail. Other traps for the unwary in newspaper ads are fancy names such as "Tree of Heaven" for Ailanthus altissima, otherwise known as stinkweed, or the ever-popular "Christmas Rose," which is not a rose (it belongs to the buttercup family) and cannot be counted on to bloom at Christmas. As a result of whooped-up claims, thousands of home gardeners plant Elberta peach trees, one of the least rewarding varieties. Another pitfall is the failure...
Pots of Silver. Land reform, that ever-popular rallying cry, was not responsible for the estancieros' downfall. They were victims of history and their own excesses. The original estancias were carved from the wilderness in the early 19th century by an adventurous breed of Spanish, British, Italian and Irish immigrants. Their sons and grandsons made their own legends by squandering the wealth. Argentines knew them as ninos bien, the wellborn children...
...disturb one inch of our ever-popular "banks of the Charles" is to rob us and our children of one of Boston's "crowning glories." We must not become an asphalt jungle...
Light is the most vexing problem in any museum. Sert & Co., after long thought, have built quarter-cylinder "traps" that concentrate light the way a radar antenna gathers in radio waves. The effect is to eliminate streaks and reflections. To thwart "artnaping," that ever-popular Riviera crime, alarms flash and doors snap shut like those in a sub marine if any art object is touched...
After Gary Borchard knocked in a tip-in to increase the Crimson's lead to 25 to 13, Dartmouth fell apart. The ever-popular Pete Kelley sank a twisting, upside down shot for a 31-15 Crimson lead after 12 1/2 minutes, and the Indians switched to a man-for-man defense, which had no immediate effects...