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...plants are taken and transported illegally. Says California Botanist Lyman Benson, a leading authority on cacti of the Southwest: "The cactus family may be the most endangered species of all major groups of plants." Cactologists list 90 native kinds as endangered or threatened. Even the commonest specimens, like the rainbow, rattail and small-barrel cacti, are swiftly disappearing from some areas...
DIED. E.Y. ("Yip") Harburg, 82, song lyricist who wrote the witty, often wistful words to the movie musical The Wizard of Oz and to Broadway's Finian's Rainbow, as well as to such tunes as It's Only a Paper Moon and April in Paris; in an automobile accident; in Los Angeles. The New York City-born Harburg, who won an Academy Award in 1939 for Oz's Over the Rainbow, remained productive and outspoken through the '60s and '70s, deploring the newer generations of songsmiths for their "lack of craftsmanship, their imitative...
...burial place - Treptow is interred in Bloomer, Wis. - but right about his heroism. Treptow grew up in Bloomer and moved to Cherokee, Iowa, to work as a barber. When the war began, he enlisted in the National Guard as a private and was sent to Europe with the 42nd "Rainbow" Division. During lulls in battle, he would give his fellow soldiers haircuts and scribble in his diary. On July 28, 1918, during the fighting near Chateau-Thierry, his commanding officer called for a courier to carry an urgent message. Treptow, 24, volunteered. He was killed before he could complete...
...bungalow and created a homey office complete with stained glass, eucalyptus-wood paneling, brass fixtures and white lace window curtains. Dr. Ronald Konopaski of San Francisco says that he has "tried to create an image similar to a beauty salon." The doctor's dental salon offers clients a rainbow-colored printed menu of services with fees. They can or der to taste - anything from a brush and floss ($5) to an examination with X rays and consultation ($55). In Oakland, Dr. Ernie Lavorini will gladly tattoo a butterfly or a flower on caps being fitted (there is an extra...
...Weather. Dinah Shore came on with Blues in the Night; Mary Martin with My Heart Belongs to Daddy. Ethel Merman belted There's No Business Like Show Business. Leontyne Price sang a moving What I Did for Love from A Chorus Line; Renata Scotto decided to Over the Rainbow. Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm brought down the house with a Sillified version of I Want What I Want When I Want...