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In 1977 the U.S. Interior Department ceded a 1.1-acre plot adjacent to the grave site to Maui County for recreational use. Local residents as well as the Lindbergh family winced at the idea of picnic tables and chain-link fencing, and the park was never built. Now the Federal...
Move over, Ben Cartwright. Some rich new cattle barons have come to town. In the past year Japanese investors have developed an appetite for U.S. beef- producing properties, including ranches, feedlots and packinghouses. Zenchiku, a major Tokyo-based meat importer, bought the 80,000-acre Selkirk Ranch near Dillon, Mont...
The most serious allegation facing MacDonald -- who has yet to respond to a committee subpoena -- concerns a tawdry kickback scam. In July 1987 MacDonald arranged for the Navajos to buy the 491,000-acre Big Boquillas ranch near Seligman, Ariz. The tribe paid $33.4 million for the place, which only...
With such gung-ho scouting reports, it was only a matter of time before the big leaguers moved in. After two years of negotiations, Les Domaines des Barons de Rothschild, the firm that manages France's prestigious Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, has purchased a half interest in Los Vascos, a 500...
Details of the deal were not disclosed, but it was probably a bargain by French standards: prime vineyards in Chile sell for $4,000 to $6,000 an acre, compared with as much as $400,000 in France's Bordeaux region. The country has a host of grape-hospitable regions...