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...lovers. A common boast around the neighborhood was that such trees live as long as 500 years. So when the lot's owners decided to build a house on the property and began cutting down the tree, Mrs. Stebbins launched a valiant holding action. Perhaps taking a hint from the premiere episode of TV's popular Apple's Way, in which the hero staged a tree-in, Mrs. Stebbins climbed into the tree last week and remained there twelve to 15 hours a day, vowing to keep up her vigil until the huge tree was granted...
...active in the G.O.P.-set up a goose hunt in Eagle Lake, Texas, allowing his son to hobnob with such G.O.P. luminaries as Stans and Herbert Kalmbach, then Nixon's personal lawyer. Cook testified that while sitting in a rice field, he had used the occasion to hint very broadly to Stans that he would like to have the older man's backing when he tried to win the job of chairman of the SEC after Bill Casey's anticipated departure. At the same time, Cook said, he mentioned to Stans that as part of the investigation...
...rinks. Roller-derby and other rough-house competitions are generally outlawed, and at many of the large rinks, crews of guards patrol the floor, ousting reckless speedsters and troublemakers. Off-duty policemen or uniformed private guards stationed at the door adamantly refuse admission to anyone with a hint of liquor on his breath, and a strict dress code prohibits ragged jeans, bare midriffs and motorcycle jackets. Says Thomas Brown, manager of the Alexandria Roller Skating Rink in Alexandria, Va.: "With all these lousy X-rated movies you can't let the kids go to, it's no wonder...
...Wright and the Sour Mash Boys. These musicians are locals and they look it, but at the same time they play more faithful country music than you can hear anywhere, faithful to the Hank Williams and Bob Wills and Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson songs they perform. The only hint of deviation is the inexplicable New England flavor they give to their music, and in a Cambridge environment that's fitting. Vocalist Wright wrote a lot of their numbers, and they're often about Maine and Boston and the like, so that's part of it. But probably the reason...
...sits behind the organ in the Garden? (Hint, he is reputed to play the fastest national anthem in the NHL and NBA) What kind of organ does he prefer to play...