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...candidates had to display their skill at writing mail-order copy-filling in blanks opposite catalogue pictures of rich chocolate cakes, golden Oregon peaches and those dwarf Christmas pines. The blend of gush and gusto that makes Bear Creek so successful is hard to match. Of the dwarf pine, one applicant writes, "A tree-mendous way to remember Christmas." Holmes and Stump groan. And groan again when confronted by "It's love at first bite"-about the nine-layer chocolate cake ($18.95 delivered...
...village of Soldiers Grove (pop. 616), snugly settled in the white oak, pine and basswood hills of southern Wisconsin, is slowly coming awake again, like a patient after a successful heart transplant. In this case, the village is undergoing urban surgery. "Soldiers Grove's survival," boasts one resident, "has been a matter of gumption...
...less orthodox expert, Edward D. McCarthy, has been observing nature's perversity for 70 winters now, and thinks there is something to be learned from it. He lives in Galeton (pop. 1,500), nestled in a canyon of the Pine River in northern Pennsylvania. "The river is frozen harder than the shady side of a banker's heart," he told TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis. "The rapids are silent, as if they're in an ice-cold grave. There have been no bear tracks for 20 days. God and Lady Nature have whispered in their ears and they...
...anyone out in this cold is an achievement," Greg Ward, another BAARD member, said at Tuesday's pine tree party...
...several members of Veterans Against Foreign Wars, 35 demonstrators, some carrying placards and chanting antiwar slogans, assembled by 11 a.m. in front of the post office. They were later joined by others who dragged small pine trees down Inman Street, across Massachusetts Avenue, and up onto the post office steps...