Word: pined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outwardly, the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pa., resembles its R.F.D. competitors. Built on the foundations of an 18th century mill, it hangs over a rushing stream, smells of pine, and usually has half a dozen fireflies in the audience. The difference begins at the footlights. Bucks County stands almost alone as a summer theater where the main interest is in new works. Six new plays are on Bucks County's 1961 schedule...
...With 16% of the world's forests, Brazil exports $90 million worth of pine a year with little effort, soon will produce all its own pulp and paper. But the Amazon's magnificent hardwoods (300 varieties v. 70 in the U.S.) rot on the forest floor, and its 600 varieties of palm trees, source of fiber, sacking, fuel, cattle feed and oils-stand unused...
...been found by Chicago's Marcia Metzger, 19, a fashion model and Sarah Lawrence freshman, who next week will marry Princeton Senior John R. Cooper, 21. Daughter of a top executive in the Erwin Wasey, Ruthrauff & Ryan advertising agency, Marcia will be married in a singlesteeple, knotty-pine chapel built especially for her wedding on her family's Woodstock, Ill., estate. Seating only 17 people, the chapel, which is a remodeled pump shed, has a built-in hi-fi system for organ music and a huge picture window opposite the altar so that guests sitting on the lawn...
After the rooms were cleared and the plaster carefully cleaned, the ancient frescoes stood out almost as fresh as when they were first painted. In one room the walls are painted to represent yellow columns linked with festoons of green pine branches sacred to the goddess Cybele, whose temple stood near...
...from the show models for $2,000-and-up funerals, displayed on what the trade calls "aisles of resistance," to such novelties as the $785 Eternalite ("manufactured by experts in the field of space-age materials") to inexpensive "flat tops," the trade's contemptuous euphemism for an unadorned pine box.* What with flowers and hearse (the compact hearse, briefly fashionable, is going out of style), limousines and embalming, the average funeral cost in 1960 was just below $1,000. In Santa Monica last week, the California Funeral Directors' Association was fighting hard to maintain the American dying standard...