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...other day White House Gardener Irvin Williams looked proudly at the youngster. "It grew 4 ft. this year," he said, scanning the supple trunk that is planted about 12 ft. from the original Adams elm, which is weak and declining. The old tree was the tallest and grandest on the White House grounds until it was hit by lightning in 1965 and lost one of its huge limbs. Another storm in 1976 battered the tree even more, and now decay has begun to eat at the 4½-ft. trunk. Its leaves, once deep green and dense, are thinning. They...
...start them out on a Maryland farm. After three years of growth, they will be transplanted to their permanent homes. None of the cousins will be so special as the one planted in March on the Jefferson mound. It has the classic vase shape of Ulmus americana. Its trunk is already 4-in. in diameter, and its upper branches in a couple of years will brush the lower limbs of the patriarch. It will be ready to stand vigil for another 150 years in the name of the Adams family on the ground that Jefferson ordered reshaped...
This fall Volvo is making a bid for the performance market by introducing the 760 GLE, with racy options like a turbo-charged diesel engine and leather seats. Its sharply sloping hood and raised trunk make the 760 GLE look more like a new Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera than a Volvo. And with a price tag of as much as $21,500, it will cost several thousand dollars more to purchase than a Cadillac Coupe de Ville...
...Thursday things got curiouser and curiouser. One ballot box was discovered in a shopping bag in a polling place, another turned up in the trunk of an election worker's car, and a third was found at the home of an election judge. By Thursday night, election officials said 15 of the traditionally Democratic Chicago precincts remained uncounted, as well as 106 in the Republican suburbs. Exclaimed an incredulous Thompson: "I've lived in Chicago a long time, and I thought I'd seen everything...
...Government witness. Others are convinced that he was slain by fellow mobsters in a business dispute. Nat Masselli was the second Donovan witness murdered during the probe. In June, Fred Furino, a Mafia bagman who was alleged to have received payoffs from Schiavone, was found dead in the trunk of a car in Manhattan...