Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seabright tournament, classic curtain raiser of the Eastern grass-court season. This year, for the first time in half a century, there may be no tournament at Seabright. But Longwood, Rye, Newport and Southampton hope to carry on in their traditional roles as tune-ups for the National at Forest Hills, and with rationing (three for each match) there will be enough balls to last the summer...
...into the soft white-&yellow limestone and into the red-brownish slate of the hilly countryside. They comprised probably the most thorough "defense in depth" ever organized. Southern Russia's young summer was already hot, and last week half-naked Nazis lunged against these hills, died in the forest of guns...
Headquarters for the development of U.S. camouflage is a group of neat, air-conditioned buildings in a pine forest at Fort Belvoir, Va. There experts train camouflage officers who are attached to practically every unit in the U.S. armed forces. Fort Belvoir picks its prospective camoufleurs from officer personnel, rates horse sense and a high I.Q. higher than previous training in art or even engineering. Continually besieged by well-meaning civilians who think they can contribute invaluable ideas or specialized backgrounds to army camouflage work, Fort Belvoir's officers have developed a healthy skepticism, finding that most people have...
Died. Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, 67, novelist (Green Forest, Black Stream), ex-wife of Bainbridge Colby, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State; in Manhattan. Once a celebrated hostess to Washington society, she satirized the blue bloods in her writings, and Colby, when he sued for divorce in France, complained that she had satirized him. She later got their divorce in Reno...
...Colorado Springs, 100 Colorado Scouts are transplanting 1,000,000 fir, spruce and pine seedlings for the Pike National Forest...