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One of Micronesia's most stalwart fighters against social erosion is Father Hugh F. Costigan. A former New York police department chaplain, Costigan directs the Ponape agriculture and trade school, an isolated 200-acre experimental farm reachable only by boat. Assisted by a volunteer staff of 40, the cigar...
The building could fill a page in The Guinness Book of World Records. The largest enclosed stadium in the world, it boasts a 9.7-acre roof, 9,000 tons of air conditioning, 32 escalators, ten elevators and 88 rest rooms. It has served more sit-down dinners in one place...
From Tehran, Carter flew to India, where he was due to be welcomed by throngs of people at Delhi's Ram Lila Grounds, the same 19-acre field in which an estimated 1 million Indians waited for hours under a hot sun to greet Dwight Eisenhower in 1959. After...
The latest blow has been the extraordinary success of the Walt Disney World theme park and entertainment center at Orlando, 240 miles to the north. The 27,400-acre complex, which opened in 1971, sports three Disney hotels, with an occupancy rate of about 97%, three golf courses and assorted...
Seattle is now enjoying the benefits of another of Ellis' grand plans, known as Forward Thrust. Voters in 1968 approved $334 million in bonds to finance 615 civic improvement projects in Ellis' package. Freeway Park, for instance, a five-acre area of greenery and waterfalls, was built on...