Word: pine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Counter Guerrilla Glide still recall how, when he was twelve, he converted a cap pistol into a zip gun and shot a deer, then dived into a river to wrestle it out and into the family larder. Glide Brown Jr. had no desire to spend his life in the pine flats "tim-timin' " (notching pine trees to collect the gum for turpentine). As soon as he graduated from Brewton's all black Booker T. Washington High School, where he played
Casino Conference. The Presidents will find Punta del Este a delightful place in which to deliberate. A peninsula 85 miles east of Montevideo, it has miles of glittering beaches, pine-dotted lawns and flaming hydrangeas. The busy summer season-late November to March-has just ended, but an influx of 2,100 security guards, 1,800 newsmen and 2,000 diplomats and aides will make up for the departed vacationers. During the four days at Punta del Este, President Johnson is staying in a seaside white chalet called Beaulieu, which has been put at his disposal free of charge...
...whimsical Hefner is a walk-around sculpture, 6 ft. tall, meant to be viewed from all sides. The body is painted onto a hollow box. The head is a wooden block that actually consists of a dozen pine boards glued together and shaped by Marisol's electric saw to look vaguely like a jet engine. Why a jet engine? She does not know. When the work arrived at our offices to be photographed for the cover by Frank Lerner, all the editors (well, nearly all) were delighted. But there were questions. Why the red, white and blue? "Perhaps...
...call it the United States. And we're bound together by our Constitution and our language. Yet, in many ways, we're a group of separate kingdoms. Our land grows palm trees and pine, redwoods and beach plum, vanishing Key deer and whooping cranes. Our people say 'you all' and 'youse'; catch shrimp and sell stocks; live in lean-tos, skyscrapers and stucco bungalows. There's never been such a fiercely diverse land...
...White River National Forest, the 20-man "safari" struck out up a narrow, wooded trail for three miles, then broke out on top at 10,000 ft. onto untouched snow fields. Under blue skies and a dazzling sun, sportsmen zigged and zagged lazily back down the mountain, through pine trees and leafless aspen, pausing only for a lunch of coffeecake and hot chocolate in an alpine meadow. Meanwhile, at Lancaster, N.H., the emphasis was on all-out action: 121 competitors, vying for 56 trophies and cash prizes, slammed through bone-jarring, cross-country or downhill obstacle races...