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...hard to imagine throngs of holiday shoppers buying out an establishment along a narrow rural road with cow-and horse crossing sings but no speed limit markers. But in the sleepy outskirts of Haverhill, Mass., just 25 miles north of Filene's. Pam and Bruce Hansen usually find themselves turning customers away from their cut-it-yourself tree farm just before Christmas...
...Hansen's Tree Farm never advertises like most Massachusetts tree stores if merely receives tree mention in a state Department of Food and Agriculture newsletter...
...restraint the couple exercises in selling their Scotch pine at only $18 per tree, like the no-advertising policy, stems from their philosophy that, as Mrs. Hansen says, the tree farm "just makes Christmas extra special...
...year-long enterprise with a three-week selling season would seem to lend itself to fearsome competition. But area growers claim that there are always plenty of customers to go around, although Pam Hansen points to the property of a neighbor, saying. "The man across the street this spring planted 25,000 seedlings. That's our competition in years to come...
...Bundestag Deputies interrupted Reagan with applause 21 times. At one point, Karl-Heinz Hansen, a Deputy who had been expelled from Schmidt's Social Democratic Party because of his anti-NATO views, cried, "El Salvador." Reagan paused and mock-innocently asked, "Is there an echo in here?" The Deputies showed their approval of this skillful handling of a heckler with laughter and cheers...