Christmas trees and frontier tales from the Southwest
Book notes overviewing A C Greene’s A Christmas Tree from Encino Press and a survey of Utton’s Pollution and International Boundaries. Also reviews Uphill into the Sun by Fred Trump and Tumbleweed Tales by Jennie George Curry, detailing plots, backgrounds, and author bios.
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Greene
Dallas
Encino Press
Austin
Tex
United States
Albert E. Utton
University of New Mexico Press
Albuquerque
Mexico
Colorado River
Colorado
New Mexico
Utah
Jennie George Curry
Naylor
San Antonio
West
Las Cruces
N.M
Wartime Heroine Reveals Mossad Bet Survival Tales
Ruth Kluger and Peggy Mann chronicled their role in Mossad le Aliyah Bet from 1939 to 1941. In The Last Escape they recount smuggling Jews out of Nazi Europe and aiding desperate fugitives in Paris 1942.
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Sandra Gittens
AP Newsfeatures
NEW York (Ap
Ruth Kluger
Ruth
Mossad le Aliyah Bet
Europe
Palestine
Peggy Mann
Paris
Mossad
Ruth Kluger recalls WWII courage and calls for peace
In a US lecture tour Ruth Kluger, 59, recounts aiding Jews during the war, meeting King Carol of Romania and General Eisenhower. She warns against naïveté in students, urges tradition and idealism, and says Arabs offer no humanity while demanding peace only under blackmail.
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Palestine
Ruth
Europe
Carol of
Romania
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Israel
Middle East
Yom Kippur
French Army Driver Becomes A Desert One-Tree Legend
A French army truck driver, long after, crashed into a solitary tree in the Sahara Desert, the only tree in a 1,000 square mile area. The act earned him a noted place among motoring mortals for the unlikely accident.
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Sahara Desert
Hightower Set to Lead West Texas Water Council Session
Amarillo will host the West Texas Water Resources Study Council meeting at 10 am to discuss Canadian River Municipal Water Authority White River Greenbelt and other projects plus cattle feeding economics and underground water districts. Sen. Jack Hightower presides. public participation urged. The council has met in Lubbock and San Angelo prior. Interstate 80 noted as the nation’s longest highway.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
West Texas
Jack Hightower
Council
Hightower
Lubbock
San Angelo
H. J. Joe Blanchard
Jim Hedgecake, Jr
K. Bert Watson
Troy McNeil
Thomas
John P. Ivey
el Paso
A. Black
Friona
Marvin Baker
Levelland
Kent Hance
George McCloskey
James B. McCray
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Southwest Books
Robert E. Ford
Associated Press
A. C. Greene
Ancel E. Nunn
Texas
Wyoming
Arizona
Fred Trump
Sarah Ann Donnelly Woolley
England
America
Kansas
Woolley
Kennedy Space Center
Fla
Norman Powell
Mom
Joan Blondell
Powell
Dick Powell
Petey
New York
California
Gafferim
Hi— Dottie
Vadrin
Alka-Seltzer
Northern
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