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Not even the sky is the limit on the real estate deals available through the friendly brokers at the United Planets Commission of Van Nuys, Calif. The firm will sell you your own little acre on the sun, "cosmic fishing grounds on Venus," or the entire Milky Way. The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Unreal Estate | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

The Islanders. Each weekday morning when Attorney Charles Moriarty, 50, a former state senator, boards the 7:10 ferry for a 35-minute commute to a glass-and-steel skyscraper in Seattle, he leaves behind what his wife Marion calls "a paradise"-Restoration Point on Puget Sound's Bainbridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Slices of the Good Life | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

The Parlange strike and an earlier successful Chevron well called the No. 1 Alma Plantation have touched off fresh waves of leasing and prospecting activity. Altogether, major oil companies and independents have leased more than 1.8 million acres. Some landowners got as much as $350 an acre and a one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Giant Gas Gusher in Louisiana | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

The President's own financial holdings are in for a reshuffling. His two-thirds share in the Plains peanut warehousing and processing business, which he took over and expanded after his father died in 1953, has been put up for sale. The man behind the move is Atlanta Lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sale in Plains | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

Hargrave, a Long Island vineyard that only five years ago was a 66-acre potato farm, was founded by Alex Hargrave, 31, who holds a Harvard M.A. in Chinese studies, with the help of his wife Louisa, who studied wine chemistry, and his brother Charles. The Hargraves plant only vinifera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Shaking California's Throne | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

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