Word: tree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since July 17 when lightning set a tree ablaze, a forest fire has been burning in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. On some days it rages across hundreds of acres of trees. On others it smolders slowly over an acre or two. By last week about 3,500 acres had been charred. Is the National Park Service concerned? Not really: its new policy -first tested in California in 1968 and now in effect in many of the U.S.'s heavily forested parks-is "Let 'em burn...
...Nick and Nora Charles from his own arrangement with Lillian Hellman--a quick and sophisticated rapport where constant insults only feed their affection. Their craziness is harmonious because everyone else is a creep. William Powell and Myrna Loy star, having cocktail number one at breakfast and shooting out the tree bulbs at Christmas...
...Kissinger has helped focus Ford's views on foreign policy, in domestic matters the President sometimes forgets the larger view now required of him as President. At his press conference, held in the Rose Garden to the accompaniment of a mockingbird in a magnolia tree, Ford candidly spoke his mind and twice got into trouble. Asked about the racial violence in Boston schools, he unwisely said that he disagreed with the court-ordered busing that caused the strife, thus appearing to ally himself with the white demonstrators (see story page 22). Then, asked whether he favored phasing...
...imposing backdrop-a blue-gray cubist evocation of a moonlit street in 18th century Naples. The vital young Jeffrey dancers, moreover, prance through the one-act ballet as if caught up in a marathon tarantella. But breathing life into this Pulcinella is rather like trying to revive a dead tree by gluing fallen leaves back onto its limbs...
...most remarked-upon item was the menu itself: it was lavishly printed on oversize imitation American dollar bills, British £5 notes, Swedish crowns and twelve other currencies. And dessert might have symbolized the grand new wealth of an oil power: a chocolate mousse topped by a miniature money tree, festooned with artificial gold coins...