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...tried to point out to Kenny what was happening, but it was no use with the noise. After a couple of miles, he pulled off the road and cruised past a sign that said Spruce Creek Farms. This was the road to the old airport where there were both sanctioned, that is Don Garlits and the Green Monster popping parachutes at the end of a 240 mph run, and midnight drags, which were accompanied by the popping of several kegs. After cutting through several roadblocks, we reached the old runway, which was clogged with grass busting through the cracks...
...Aldrich was later appointed chief counsel of the Rockefeller-controlled Equitable Trust Co. After twelve years he became chairman of the Chase National (now Chase Manhattan) Bank and earned resentment from the financial community for proposing such reforms as the absolute separation of investment and commercial banking. A spruce, reserved descendant of Mayflower passengers, during World War II Aldrich headed the British War Relief Society and, after supporting Dwight Eisenhower's candidacy in 1952, left banking to become Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...come to the town and taken up the carpenter's trade and produced all this strange variety of ornament: the rising (or setting?) sun shape, the cart-wheel, the star pattern, the pagoda like shapes or one we just called the Spruce St. Variety. There's probably a folk-art monograph and foundation grant in it: "Varieties of the Eave Ornament in the Southeastern U.S. 1880-1920." With color pictures. Out of boredom we began classifying types and snapping a few pictures--to the disbelief and irritation of women on porches who thought we were photographing something going on behind...
...George Blue Spruce will speak on "Health Manpower: A National Crisis, An Indian Tragedy." Thursday, August 9, at 4 p.m. at the Science Center...
Minutes later the hidden agents?there were 40 in all?got the word over their short-wave radios: "Suspects are proceeding down Spruce Street, headed for Gold." In the third-floor observation post, one agent cracked to TIME Correspondent James Willwerth, "The Chinese are very punctual." So they were?right on time for the most important narcotics bust this summer...