Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TELL you the story of Waller Creek. Waller Creek winds along the entire length of the University of Texas campus, furnishing the only break in the mass of buildings. Below my dormitory was a beautiful patch of huge cypress trees, oak trees, and a tangle of smaller trees. I'd been around, under, or in those trees ever since the summer after my junior year in high school...
...couple of weeks later I saw some people I know carrying "Save the Trees" signs, They'd been trying to save five oak trees in front of the football stadium across the street. But the trees had already been bulldozed- which was to be expected, since they were in the way of the stadium expansion. The football stadium presently seats 65,000 persons, but Frank Erwin, chairman of the Board of Regents, had led a campaign to build a new deck of 14,000 seats. A lot of people here thought one of the last things this university needed...
Sabatino dispatched four twelve-man patrols to Montalto. The local cops and national carabinieri Jeeped to within a mile of the peak, then fanned out on foot. Climbing through oak and beech, then pine and fir, one of the carabinieri patrols suddenly flushed a man with a gun, who appeared to be some sort of sentry. Persuaded by the gun in his back, the sentry led the police up to a glade where some 130 men were gathered. Six of the men, apparently wary of informers, wore black hoods. Most were heavily armed, and all were obviously members...
WALLACE KIRKLAND Oak Park...
...building itself, decorated with Teddy Roosevelt's African game trophies (since sold to bargain-hunting undergraduates), oak paneling, and coat of arms, there was opportunity for a real Harvard club. Its basement held a large room with eighteen billiard tables where a member could obtain free instruction from "a well-known professional." A kitchen, a printing office, and some rooms of the CRIMSON completed this floor. Above in the hall now used as freshman dining rooms, was a living room. An athletes' training table occupied what is now the Union kitchen. Upstairs, a library of 25,000 volumes filled...