Word: wille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"He'd be ideal for the part," said the producers of a pop musical about Christ called Superstar. "After all, from pictures of Christ he looked like a well-turned-out Lennon." John Lennon, that is. Sure, he'd consider playing Jesus, the Beatle was reported to have...
After the emergency meeting, School Board Chairman Richard Farrell declared last week that "the whole thing was a great misunderstanding" and "the program of observing religious holidays in Marblehead schools will continue as in the past." In Marblehead as elsewhere, it seems, the best Christmas policy is no policy.
"My boyhood home had tremendous elms," recalls John Hansel, 45, a New Jersey manufacturer of watercoolers. "Those trees were my symbols of the past." In fact, Hansel bought his present house in Riverside, Conn., mainly because four venerable elms shaded the front yard. Unfortunately, two of the trees soon died...
Hansel was not the first to mount a scientific assault on elm disease. Experts have long known that it is caused by a fungus, carried by the elm-bark beetle, that clogs the tree's circulatory system. But ever since the disease hit the U.S. in the early 1930s...
In a parallel attack on elm disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to cross the disease-prone American elm with the hardy Siberian variety. Even if the hybrid is a success, elm lovers are not likely to be pleased. The new tree clearly lacks the grace of its American...