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...certain precooled salts, scientists have reached temperatures only a tiny fraction above absolute zero, −459.72° F. But hundreds of scientists assembled for a science congress in Canberra, Australia's capital, last week could do precisely nothing to alter a summer temperature of 108° in the shade...
...Composer Grieg, for all his fame, remained one of music's flower gardeners. Most of his best compositions were light songs and piano pieces, small, lyric, orchestral posies. There was no room on his plot for big symphonic and operatic hedgerows and shade trees. For this situation his biographer blames not Grieg but the character of the national soil. Norway's folk idioms were wild flowers, not acorns, and even the ablest husbandman could not make them sprout into oaks...
Typical report from a local Plant-to-Prosper winner: "We tore down an old outhouse and saved the roofing and flooring to build an additional room to our home. . . . We set out seven shade trees and 25 fruit trees . . . have taken better care of the hens, cows, pigs, garden and truck patches. . . ." One Missouri tenant farmer's wife was so enthusiastic she sewed "Plant-to-Prosper" on her son's basketball uniform...
After becoming (for the 16th time) an LL.D., Franklin Roosevelt made a speech (broadcast nationwide) in which he invoked the shade of Theodore Roosevelt as a fighting "liberal," exhorted U. S. youth to "go places" for Democracy. His prologue...
Today, perhaps two dozen of the "too many elms" which displeased Lowell are still standing. As old trees have died, replacements have been made in order to maintain the "classic shade." The University spends thousands every year in maintaining the splendor of the Yard's ancient trees...