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...excitement over the acacia, Tree Surgeon Grover Smith arrived from nearby Harlingen, and somehow climbed the tree without Morse's knowledge. His deflating conclusion, which was printed in the local press: insects had bored "into a little old bitty knothole and the tree just started bleeding." It was sap, not water, flowing out of the tree, Smith insisted...
...explanation. "Sam Morse's tree," he said, "is simply an ordinary Leucaena pulverulenta, better known as an Acacia, a Lead-tree or a Great Lead-tree. When the bark ruptures on this kind of tree, the pressure inside the tree's vessels forces its abundant supply of sap to run through the opening...
Despite such expert testimony and a sudden halting of the sap flow late last month, Rio Grande Valley residents have continued to pour into La Feria to share in the "miracle" of Morse's acacia. On Labor Day weekend alone, some 1,500 passed through the chain-link fence. Scorning science, and showing that he knows a miracle when he sees one, Morse has been making plans to surround the tree with paving stones and to erect an awning to shield waiting patrons from the hot Texas sun. Meanwhile, he is waiting patiently for his bountiful acacia...
...ventured that Hanoi's leaders expect domestic dissent and international disapproval to sap America's will to fight the far-off war. "They have not forgotten that the Viet Minh won more in Paris than in Dien Bien Phu, and believe that the Viet Cong may be as fortunate in Washington." In summary, he maintained that present U.S. strategy is "the best that has been suggested. Certainly it is not without risks-but little of value in this world...
...plot sounds neat in a couple of sentences. We're in the twenty-first century (as Victim thuds dully onto the science-fiction bandwagon), and there's an international murder tournament called "The Hunt," government-run to sap the aggressions of potential war-mongeers. Anyone who survives ten hunts becomes a "decathlon" and retires with a lush government pension...