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...become the most famous apparition of the Virgin Mary since the visions of Bernadette at Lourdes (1858). Francisco was nine and Jacinta was seven on that May Sunday in 1917 when, playing with their cousin Lucia, ten, they saw "a lady all dressed in white" hovering over a small evergreen. In 1919 and 1920, Francisco and Jacinta died of influenza. Lucia has written down the Virgin's revelations; among them was a promise of Russia's ultimate conversion...
Chemist Duisberg had begun his own experiments with the creosote bush (Larrea divaricata), an acrid, sticky evergreen that thrives in millions of acres of drought-stricken wasteland. Last winter, using a distilling apparatus made from junkheap parts, Duisberg showed how to turn the hardy bush into a palatable stock feed.* With one byproduct already available to increase the margin of profit (nordihydroguaiaretic acid, a fat preservative that brings $35 a lb.), he managed to develop another: a quick-drying varnish that is almost certain to be salable. Other promising plants on Duisberg's list...
After the watch, Richard and two others play hooky and head for a swim. The shift from the atmosphere of the chapel to the outdoor freshness of a spring morning is achieved in descriptive language of unusual beauty: "Everywhere among the retreating trees strayed sober clouds of evergreen and mild clouds of blossom and the dreaming laurels, and everywhere, as deep into the stunned woods as they could see, layer above unwavering layer, the young leaves led like open shale; while, against their walking, apostolically, the trees turned." The swim itself and the boyish killing of a snake afterwards...
Towns and villages along the route greeted them with evergreen arches of welcome. Old men puffed long pipes and watched. But young men of military age were noticeably absent. They had been drafted by the Communists for a stand at Wonsan and Pyongyang...
...BARBER Evergreen, Colo...