Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia Inquirer editorialized that maybe Pennsylvania should make the Irish setter its "state dog" to go along with a state flower, state tree and state game bird. The United Irish Societies of Pittsburgh found a lawyer willing to defend the dogs-for free. A dog from the Pittsburgh police K-9 corps found his paw dipped in ink and splayed in signature across a petition for clemency. A New York striptease dancer, who claims to own 50 dogs, offered to undress in front of the courthouse if it would help save the setters...
...miles northeast of Saigon their car ran into a string of autos stalled in the center of the road. Around them swarmed some 20 grim-faced Vietnamese wearing rubber sandals, tree branches thrust into their belts for camouflage, and light field packs over their black peasant garb. "We were ordered out of the car," said Mrs. Jacobsen, "but we weren't frightened. We thought we would be on our way in a few minutes." This was not to be, for the hapless missionary families were caught in a roadblock of the Communist Viet Cong...
Last year, a 17-year-old singer named Kenny Karen made his grandly promoted debut with a song called Susie, Forgive Me, in which the hero robs a candy store after paralyzing Susie by smashing his car into a tree...
...bills. Edie made a little more than $150,000 last year and should do better this year, with a record album, two movies already completed (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Call Me Bwana), and two more about to be filmed ( The Yum Yum Tree and Very Important Persons). She has also been offered the lead in a production of South Pacific that is planned for Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House next autumn...
Except for a handful of growers who were wiped out when the frost killed off millions of young trees, the citrus industry still has a ripe future-and will probably continue to expand. Citrus trees begin to yield profitably after five years and bear fruit almost indefinitely, though taxmen write them off in 40 years. The hazards, beyond an occasional frost or round of tree diseases, are small. And the profit, with any kind of effort, is a juicy...