Word: sequoias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what they call their "inspirational defense." One part heart and three parts hustle, the pressing defense drove the Lakers-and 19,500 wildly cheering fans in Madison Square Garden-into a near hysteria. The undersized Knicks skittered around the 7-ft. 1-in. Chamberlain like squirrels under a sequoia, forcing the shaky Lakers to throw the ball away 19 times. Final score: Knicks 107, Lakers...
...course he took, though, was a three-month Military Government course. Hubbard claims to be a nuclear physicist, but the closest he came in the academic world was the George Washington School of Engineering. He also claims to have a Ph. D. in Philosophy, awarded from a school called Sequoia in California. All clues indicate that Sequoia was the name of the Scientology Center in Los Angeles in the middle 50's, and that Hubbard awarded himself the degree. (Sequoia is not accredited by the state of California. Among its faculty, listed as Professor of Scientology, was L. Ron Hubbard...
Present plans call for selling diseased ponderosas to lumber companies and replacing them with nearly 70,000 giant Sequoia and sugar pine trees, which are thought to be more resistant to smog. Meantime, the smog rolls on, doubtless affecting the forest in other ways that are not yet known...