Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Byrd Tree...
...centered on Senator Harry Flood Byrd, it is of interest to note that the middle name Evelyn, appearing in every generation since the second, comes from the beautiful and accomplished daughter of William Byrd II [1674-1744] of Westover, himself a royal pippin on the family apple tree...
THIS week it is the Berlin wall. 1 Last week it was the flight of Russia's space twins. Fortnight ago, it was Senator Byrd's family tree. Week after week, Robert M. Chapin Jr. seeks vivid new pictorial ways to illustrate the news. He has been doing it for 25 years for TIME. Beginning as a one-man operation, Chapin now has a staff of six, including Artists Vincent Puglisi and Jere Donovan, to turn out an average of six to eight maps, charts, drawings and diagrams weekly. A few years back, Walter W. Ristow...
...Close, 61, owns a Las Vegas mortgage loan company, has a house with a palm tree growing through it. The top of the tree is spotlighted at night, now bears his campaign poster: M. D. CLOSE FOR GOVERNOR. His vague platform centers around a state lottery, which is illegal. But, platforms aside, he candidly admits: "I have a purpose in running-I wanna be elected...
Heady as Wine. The enormous stage (40,000 sq. yds.) supported such assorted distractions as Aztec temples, adobe huts, palm-tree jungles and a fishing fleet with speckled sails that bobbed in a harbor set at stage left. Dancers and singers, 700 strong, roamed about, some of them equipped with flaring torches. Concealed beneath fishermen's nets, the 120-man Vienna Symphony whipped out the music everyone had come to hear-a froth of billowy, bubbly Viennese tunes, as light and heady as the Nussberger wine that flowed before the performance. Through it all, the tenor sang of love...