Word: forest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Madame Dieudonne in her bamboo bed-Viet Nam and life at its languorous, loving best-who softens Clancy and does the implacable warrior in. Eastlake does not say. Whatever the cause, Clancy tarnishes his hero's image and lets down his troops as well. Deep in a forest he dies a slow, solitary death, while both his own side and the Viet Cong hunt for him as if he possessed some solution to the war, or perhaps to life itself...
Died. Robert E. Wood, 90, soldier turned merchant king, who built Sears, Roebuck and Co. into the world's largest merchandising concern; in Lake Forest, Ill. A West Pointer (1900) who rose to brigadier general, Wood had one motto: "Let's charge!" And charge he did soon after he joined Sears as a vice president in 1924. Within four years he was president, and what was previously a rural mail-order house swiftly expanded into retail stores, insurance and financing. One of Wood's wisest moves was pioneering an employee profit-sharing plan that now owns...
...walked into the middle of a small riot. Then I had my car towed away for a slightly expired parking meter, and got ticketed for failing to see a sign hidden behind a truck. Back in Los Angeles, a confirmed Californian, I made arrangements for my burial at Forest Lawn...
...distrust of Government interference and insistence on Government help, are not unique to California. But it does lend California politics an especially unreal air. As visitors so often note, this sense of the unreal is everywhere: from the packaging of political candidates to the packaging of death at Forest Lawn, from Hollywood emotions to the plastic flowers and the trashcans that are disguised to look like tree trunks. These suggest the popular California metaphor: the world as euphemism. Something slightly disguised here, contrived there. And yet, and always, throughout the state there is something more. Somewhere between the cosmetics above...
...Today's prebable evictions will end a nine-year struggle between the North Harvard comminuity and utban renewal forest. The BRA initiated eminent domain proceedings in 1961 when about 60 buildings stood on the proposed buil ding site. Eviction proceedings erupted in violence in 1965, and the project was then changed from luxury apartments to low and moderate income housing...