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The result is the fast trading easy money of a land boom. Ranchers near Denver or Boulder can sell their holdings of sage and scrub for as much as $3,000 an acre. Colorado is now one of the nation's fastest-growing states (seventh after Nevada, Florida, Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Saving the Slopes | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

There is indeed more folksiness than foppery in the offstage Doc (real name: Carl). He lives in New Jersey on a 65-acre spread called Harmony Farms, where he likes to slop around in faded jeans and a five-gallon hat and pore over books on the bloodlines of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hip Hokum | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

When Secretary of State William H. Seward bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, his critics quickly asked: Who wants 375 million acres of "icebergia," good only for a few "wretched fish"-even at $7.2 million, or 2? an acre? The answer is now plain: everyone. Most Alaskans see the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Second Purchase | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

There are two ways for a city to acquire a cultural center. One is to clear a downtown neighborhood and erect an entire new complex-at a tremendous expenditure of money, time and public inconvenience. New York's Lincoln Center cost $184 million, took ten years to complete, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Recycled Centers | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

The development will renovate a 28.5-acre plot on the shore of the Detroit River. Now occupied by decrepit commercial buildings, the area by 1980 will contain a soaring hotel, four office towers, apartment buildings and retail stores. To design the project, Ford has hired Architect John Portman, a vehement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Better Idea for Detroit | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

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