Word: trees
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...bitter, windswept night, crowds gathered in Boston to see the city's Christmas tree lighted. Then, as a glow enveloped the 55-ft. spruce, Boston Pops Conductor John Williams led a choir of 500 boys and girls from local schools in Silent Night as 10,000 Bostonians sang along. In Chicago 2,300 amateurs filled Orchestra Hall to overflowing for the city's fifth annual sing-it-yourself production of Handel's Messiah. Jeane Moore, a Montana housewife, flew 1,600 miles from Kalispell just to sing in Chicago after seeing the concert last year on television...
...Washington, President Carter asked the families of the American hostages whether they wanted the national tree lighted this year, and they chose to keep it dark once again as a continuing vigil-except for a single star...
...tiny park on the outskirts of San Juan's business district, ten people gathered under an almond tree for a weird rite. They laid out a coffin with a paper-and-rag doll in side and surrounded it with four large candles, slips of paper with numerals and percentages, and branches from a local plant called Cruz de Malta...
...call to the trenches" for his followers. They became so stirred as initial results came in on election night that a large crowd marched on the Roberto Clemente Coliseum, where the ballots were counted. They threw rocks at police and at cars displaying the N.P.P.'s palm tree emblems and burned an effigy of Romero. Riot squads were needed to restore order...
...more guarded about the hostages' fate than the President. At the annual ceremony to light the Christmas tree on the Ellipse behind the White House, Carter bowed to a request by the hostages' families: except for a bright star of hope at the top, he left the 24-ft. spruce dark as a somber "vigil of remembrance." Said Carter: "Our American hostages have not yet come home. But most of our prayers have been answered. They have stayed in touch with their families. So far as we know, they are safe, and their lives have been spared...