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As sleazy as it sounds, that's exactly what the University is proposing to do with $2.5 million which funds the 3800-acre Harvard Black Rock Forest in Cornwall, N.Y. Under a proposed sale agreement released last month. Harvard would sell the site--which was donated to the University by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Question of Trustworthiness | 9/20/1984 | See Source »

But beneath those miracle plants the precious mantle of topsoil is washing away, some 13 tons per acre every year. The experts say a tolerable limit is a five-ton loss. So if nothing more is done, in less than 50 years the great resource on which rests our national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Pay Heed to the Prairie | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

He called Dallas a frontier. He talked about the 1820s, when his people first came to Texas. Land was grabbed up at 10? an acre. Now the new entrepreneurs occupy office buildings instead of ranges. But there is more than that to Dallas. People are taken at face value here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell Me, What Was It Like? | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

More alluring still was the promise of big deals and easy money that Wilson laid before dazzled guests at his 3,000-acre estate in the Virginia hunt country. Some enthusiastically accepted jobs in his flourishing export business. To those who wondered how a man who said he was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Terrorist for Our Times | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

Even in a Monopoly game, players buy only one avenue at a time. But in Worcestershire County in central England, most of a 7,200-acre town, Redditch, is up for sale-lock, stock and block. The package includes the land under 6,000 private houses, 5 million sq. ft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Estate: For Sale: One Town | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

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