Word: herald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white yarn snowflakes painstakingly crocheted by the state's senior citizens. Boston's golden-domed statehouse backs a Common of white-lit trees. In Sacramento this year, because the capitol building is undergoing reconstruction to strengthen it against earthquakes, only two 10-ft. firs herald the holiday. And in Washington, a white spruce festooned with 2,500 colored lights and 5,000 shiny ornaments easily upstages the Capitol behind it. But over near the White House the nation's official Christmas tree is dark except for one star at the top because the hostages in Iran have...
...Benge, the leucaena has held a fascination since the mid-1960s, when he learned of it on an agricultural project in Viet Nam. A prisoner of the North Vietnamese from 1968 to 1973, he returned to the U.S. and helped herald its wonders to a growing list of tropical countries suffering deforestation. A group of Haitians now plans to grow 12,000 acres of leucaenas. The Philippines has its own ambitious leucaena program; so too do India and Indonesia. In fact the only signs of indifference Benge has found are in his own federal agency. But he will...
MARRIED. William Welsh Graham, 31, adjunct professor of law at U.C.L.A. and son of Washington Post Co. Chairman Katharine Graham; and Caroline Gushing, fortyish gossip columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and onetime companion of David Frost; in Beverly Hills, Calif.; he for the first time, she for the third...
Most trustees disagree, and there appears to be strong support on the board for Silber. Just last month the trustees--incensed at what they considered inaccurate and biased reporting about the five professors facing disciplinary proceedings--bought full-page advertisements in The Boston Globe and Boston Herald-American to "set the record straight" and declare their "full confidence" in Silber. The ads reportedly cost...
...Even the Herald has felt the effects of rising prices, though. "It's gotten like oil, you never know what the next bill will say," Baumgardener moaned...