Christmas tree hunt on the road to the suburbs
A writer recounts the urban tree hunt across New York, describing the challenge of buying and transporting a Christmas tree. After failed bus and subway attempts, and costly delivery options, the narrator and spouse drive to the suburbs, find a 6 foot Scotch pine for five dollars, and bring it home after an eight hour ordeal and a total of 22 dollars including car rental.
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Fight over foreign aid provisions in $1.86 billion package
In Washington, Senate opposition to two foreign aid items seeks to block $50 million for South Korea and $54 million for a Nationalist Chinese fighter squadron. Fulbright predicts likely overturning as House tacked these provisions onto the bill. the aid package totals $1.97 billion with the Taiwan and Korea items removed. In Brisbane, a Brahman bull named Waverley Noel D. Manso set a world record at $62,720 at Rockhampton auction, bought by Dr. F. W. Stone and Innes Pastoral Co.
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