Word: hemlock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camas, Wash. last week, Crown Zellerbach Corp.'s Executive Vice President Harold L. Zellerbach picked up a gold-painted shovel and patted rain-soaked earth around the base of a newly-planted western hemlock. With this symbolic gesture, he dedicated the company's new three-story $600,000 central research laboratory building. Said Zellerbach: "Three decades ago, the western hemlock was considered little more than a forest weed...
Then research scientists and wood technicians unlocked some of its secrets, and the western hemlock emerged as a Cinderella tree. It has become one of the finest sources of fibers for papermaking...
...enlisted the aid of a hotel owner and a tenor-turned-businessman. By last week 110 acres had been converted into festival grounds containing a 4,000-seat amphitheater, a stage that could be adapted for concerts or theater-in-the-round, and floodlights etching the surrounding trees-hemlock, white pine, maple and cherry. The Empire State Music Festival was ready for business. The opening concert (Beethoven and Brahms) was conducted by Holland's standout Eduard van Beinum; the next night a U.S. conductor, Emerson Buckley, led a setless but fresh-sounding La Boheme. Planned later this season: Shakespeare...
...gallery of what might be called martyrs of thought, the image of Galileo recanting before the Italian Inquisition stirs the minds of educated modern men second only to the picture of Socrates drinking the hemlock. That image of Galileo is out of focus, in the view of M.I.T.'s Professor Georgio de Santillana, because it has been distorted by three centuries of rationalist prejudice and clerical polemics...
...government. Mendès now concedes that in his first days as Premier he moved too fast, and did not lay proper groundwork for Socialist cooperation. The issues that attracted them (IndoChina, North Africa, EDC) are now disposed of; some of his proposed economic reforms may prove pure hemlock to the Socialists...