Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reilly, whose car went out of control and hit a tree about 11:30 near Brighton, was suffering from a serious chest wound, face fractures, fractured skull, and broken arm, leg, and shoulder...
That was the drama which confronted Mexican police last week. Quickly, the cops had quite a clue thrust at them: one of the passengers, Jose Alfredo del Valle, 44, was found hanging, a belt around his neck, from a tree in a La Paz park. Cut down and revived, he insisted: "I was just trying to enjoy the view from the tree." The cops showed a picture of Del Valle to the airline clerk in Culiacan. "That," said the clerk, "is the man who called himself Jesus Montes...
...good 80% spent hours snapping scenery with their cameras. In El Paso, enthusiastic Texans draped Conductor Monteux in a Mexican serape; in Tucson, a vigilante committee routed Conductor Munch out of his berth and-with assurances that it was the greatest prize within their gift- led him to a tree. slung a rope around his neck and treated him to an honorary hanging...
under the hazels, under the fig tree, on the parapet of the bridge, on those long summer evenings . . . Those were the evenings when a light-a bonfire on the distant hills-made me scream and roll on the ground, because I was poor, because I was a boy, because I was nothing." In the end, the hero hardly knows whether he is sorrier that he can't go home again or that he once left. By clenching his writing fist in melodramatic symbols and seizures at his own riddle, Author Pavese loses his grip on the realities he writes...
Theater of Stars (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS). Van Heflin in The Apple Tree...