Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earlier cover and is a student of Czechoslovak character and politics, joined up with a massive Russian army convoy of heavy vehicles, field pieces and armored personnel carriers moving down the narrow roads in the foothills of the High Tatra Mountains. At their secluded camp sites in the pine-tree forests, Forbath chatted with Russian soldiers and officers, who talked amiably about their mission and offered him tea. While some other correspondents were running into trouble with both the Russian and the Czechoslovak authorities, Forbath was not prevented from visiting and viewing, perhaps because he speaks both German and Hungarian...
...lobby for a Playboy Club in Wisconsin, Grosvenor proposed a piece so large that people would have to walk over or around it. Hefner never actually told him in so many words that it would not do. "Next thing I knew," Grosvenor recalls, "they were buying $9,000 trees to put where my piece was supposed to go." Grosvenor is currently at work on a huge rainbow-like arc, commissioned by a Newport collector, that will curve out and downward from a 30-ft. cliff near the ocean. Even a $9,000 tree, he figures, would have trouble growing downward...
...strictly forbidden to engage in any combat operations, and so far none has been killed. But there have been some unnerving moments, When he first went to live in a village, Technical Sergeant Kermit H. Moffett, 30, was greeted by the sight of a schoolteacher hanging dead in a tree, a victim of Communist terrorism. But Moffett stayed on, providing medical help and living just as the Thais did. Communist propaganda teams twice came to the village to hold meetings, but both times they left Moffett alone. He had become too popular with the villagers to be attacked. At another...
...perhaps even a spreading chestnut tree...
...tree-shaded Boston Common has been a cherished redoubt for the city's weary ever since British troops evacuated it 192 years ago. This summer it is being occupied by an antiforce, as hippies from all over the U.S. invade it for what may be the flagging flower world's last great love-in. They spend their days singing, sleeping and making love. As the hot weather sets in, they frolic in the Frog Pond or listen to rock concerts by such groups as the Ultimate Spinach...