Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble in the streets of Saigon, where several elements continued to contest the right of Thieu's administration to rule. Students demonstrated briefly but were quickly contained by police. Thich Tri Quang, South Viet Nam's most troublesome monk, declared a hunger strike beneath his tree opposite Independence Palace. His Buddhist followers announced that 110 monks and nuns were ready to burn themselves alive and that 1,000 would march to Independence Palace early this week. The disorders may be embarrassing to Thieu, but they so far have not amounted to any real challenge to his government...
...whose 5-ft. 10-in., 105-lb. body is supported on what appear to be stilts, moored at the bottom to size 8½ feet. With a physique like that-and an oval face with fathomless, huge brown eyes to go with it-it was perhaps inevitable that Penelope Tree, 17, should emerge as the brightest new model and the likely successor-at least conversationally-to Twiggy...
Penelope, daughter of wealthy English Businessman Ronald Tree and former United States Delegate to the United Nations Marietta Peabody Tree, likes being a model because it is fun. Says she: "I've met people I love whom I probably would never have met otherwise, and I think the camera is the newest and most exciting implement since the paintbrush." Besides, although the gesture is scarcely necessary, modeling will allow her to pay her own way through Sarah Lawrence College, where she is a freshman. "It's an easy way to get money," says Penelope...
...bring Tarn Chau and Tri Quang together to mediate what the government regarded as an internal Buddhist quarrel. But Tri Quang refused to meet with Tarn Chau under any conditions created by the government. Instead, dismissing his followers, he settled his robes for an indefinite protest vigil underneath a tree in front of the palace. Each night followers brought fresh changes of robes and food, tea, milk, vitamins, dextrose mixed with water and aspirin. The palace guards permitted Tri Quang to use their gate toilet, and when the monsoon came, South Vietnamese Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan came...
...ever laid eyes on-a five-man Arkansas jug band appearing before a Senate subcommittee on behalf of Green Thumb, a Government project that gives old folks jobs beautifying Arkansas roadsides. As the jug band sawed away, someone passed out Green Thumb hard hats (worn as protection against falling tree branches). One of the hats wound up atop that dour Arkansan John McClellan, 71. Without a change in his grim expression, McClellan stood up and began dancing a jig to the Arkansas Traveler, all the while slapping at the hat to keep it in place. Before long...