Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aretha Franklin soul concert at New York's Madison Square Garden...
...tree farmers have tumbled by as much as 90%. Steyer had hoped to sell 20,000 trees this year. Instead, customers have been driving away in empty trucks, unwilling to take the stunted and mis-shapen trees. "I think I'm out of business," Steyer says sadly. Dr. Franklin Custer, the other principal tree grower near Mount Storm, used to cut 10,000 trees a year. This season he expects to chop fewer than 1,000. One scraggly group of trees, only two miles from the belching smokestacks, may well be Custer's last stand on that site...
...Finally, in 1772, Gibbon settled down in London with six servants, a parrot and a Pomeranian lapdog to write Decline and Fall. He completed it 14 years later, and his success was immediate though not universal. Gibbon swiftly arrived at a celebrity that allowed him to dine with Benjamin Franklin, converse with the Emperor of Austria-and aggravate his own gout. But he and his times were not really in tune. The French Revolution Gibbon dismissed as "popular madness." The 19th century social scientist Walter Bagehot was probably right in judging him to be the sort of man that revolutionary...
...exactly have a bunch of NCAA champions in the lower weights," Lee said Saturday after Franklin and Marshall had dealt the Crimson its first defeat of the season...
...Cambridge sage, a 24-year old from St. Johns and Franklin and Marshall colleges, has launched a personal campaign to help Harvard students "relate more effectively to their environment...