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It was the Vietnamese village elders who came up with a solution, which Kinnard reluctantly accepted as the best among unhappy alternatives: the first brothel quarter built exclusively for American soldiers in Viet Nam. Half finished, An Khe Plaza, as the sign at the M.P. gatehouse declares, or "Disneyland," as...
Died. Leverett Saltonstall Jr., 48, oldest son and namesake of the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, an agronomy Ph.D. from Cornell who raised grain on his 800-acre working farm; of lung cancer; in Ithaca, N.Y.
The price of U.S. farm land has been creeping up for 25 years, and lately the creep has turned into a sprint. On top of a 6% increase in 1964, farmland prices across the nation jumped another 6% last year, according to the Agriculture Department. In many areas, the gain...
The same Crown Point, Ind., farm that was sold for $325 an acre a year ago recently acquired a new buyer at $500 an acre. In Texas' Montgomery County, 25 miles north of Houston and not far from an oilfield complex, pasture that went for $350 an acre in...
Out from the Fringes. Farmland prices are jumping fastest on the fringes of cities, partly because speculators figure that population growth, low tax assessments on vacant land, and the growing net of federal highways will give them juicy profits. Also, inflation worries and stock-market jitters persuade some investors that...