Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his general indictment of tree-caused air pollution, Went also had a kind word for the tree's byproduct. Some of the important organic deposits in the earth's crust, such as petroleum and bituminous coal, he says, may well have come from arboreal air pollutants gradually deposited on earth by falling rain and snow...
...Mafia. Like other U.S. cities, Los Angeles has its crime problem. Under gruff longtime Chief Bill Parker, still un-replaced since his death in July, the city's 5,181-man force won a justifiable reputation as a highly efficient, untouchable operation that kept Los Angeles tree of Mafia-style crime. Still, Los Angeles' proximity to Mexico helps give it the biggest narcotics problem after New York, and its plethora of autos produces the highest incidence of auto theft and auto stripping of any U.S. city. It is a tribute to the efficiency of the police, whose numbers...
Also rehearsing is The Apple Tree, the first musical directed by Mike Nichols; it is a triple bill loosely lifted from the writings of Mark Twain, Frank Stockton and Cartoonist Jules Feiffer. The unifying forces are the theme "man, woman and the devil," and score and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, who did Fiddler on the Roof. A final derivative musical is Cabaret, which in earlier incarnations was Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories and the John van Druten drama I Am a Camera. With Jill Haworth in the old Julie Harris role, it is already...
...opened up with .50-cal. machine guns, cutting down 25 Reds with the first volley. Then Australian, New Zealand and U.S. artillery found the range. When the smoke cleared, the Communists were in full flight, and 220 Viet Cong dead littered the ground. Under a rubber tree, guarding the body of his slain platoon leader, was Private B. C. Miller of Brisbane. Wounded in the face, shoulder and leg, Miller had lapsed into unconsciousness only to be awakened by a Viet Cong trying to tug off his boots. "Bug off!" Miller shouted at the startled Red, who promptly complied...
...Mind's Eye. Other paintings spring more naturally out of the past. "My father was a big man," recalls Cloar, "and I couldn't help wondering as a boy if he wasn't big as a tree. Actually, I thought he was a little too big, and I didn't quite approve of him." As Cloar portrayed him in 1955, his father is indeed as big as a tree, and he himself is a pouting boy in a soapbox racer looking for all the world as if Pa had broken a branch on him that...