Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government is moving even faster in the countryside. Hopeful that higher-yield rubber trees will enable Malayan rubber to compete with synthetics in the years ahead, Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Razak, 39, is trying to get 50,000 more acres a year under cultivation. To work the land, he is resettling farmers in self-contained communities, like those once organized for defense against Communist attacks. In one settlement in Bilut Valley, 483 Malay, Chinese and Indian families, most of whom have never farmed before, are living peacefully together, even though the Chinese breed pigs, which the Malays abhor...
...cableway's traction line, losing a wing tank in the glancing blow, then soared out of the valley. The severed cable cracked like a whip. Three of the cars tumbled 500 ft. to earth, killing all six of their passengers. "They fell like ornaments from a Christmas tree," said one shaken observer. In the remaining cars, 81 other passengers dangled helpless in space. Mountain guides worked their way close enough to rope some of the passengers to safety. It took cableway technicians using hand cranks 20 hours to rescue the last car and its passengers...
...position." Deferring to the sensitivities of his recent opponent, President Kennedy told his press conference that he would give his opinion on the matter-"I do have an opinion"-only if Nixon asked for it. Off for a golf date with Nixon at Maryland's Burning Tree Country Club, Dwight Eisenhower took the same tack: "If he wants my advice, I'll be glad to give it to him." But the lack of an invitation did not inhibit New York's bouncy Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who clearly has his own eye on the 1964 Republican presidential nomination...
Hurtling his Cadillac down a serpentine road outside Munich, heavy-footed Cinemactor Horst Buchholz, 27, unwillingly dubbed "the Teutonic James Dean," careened out of control and wrapped the white convertible around a tree. Thrown free and found crawling with one hand to his stomach, the blood-smeared star of Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (which was just 2½ shooting days from completion) was carted to Munich University Clinic, where emergency surgery repaired serious abdominal injuries. Next morning, relieved to hear that his promising property would be back before the cameras by mid-October and with nary...
When Liberation Mah is born, the Tree Trunk disappears, and Cripple Mah sets out with the baby and an old billy goat, which he had purchased under the impression that it was a nanny, to seek his fortune in Peking. It is not long before he is supporting another Comrade Sweetheart. Even in a progressive state, this is one cup of water too many, and soon Mah finds himself in a corrective labor camp, being washed of bigamous thoughts. Everything turns out well, just in time for the second-act curtain. Says San Franciscan Lee, who last saw his native...