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Land developers also do handsomely. In 1956 a former cotton picker named Michael Mungo began studying population trends in and around Columbia, S.C., saw that all signs pointed to rising growth in suburban areas. He bought up outlying land for $282.50 an acre, put in water lines and some other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millionaires: How They Do It | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

The house is no Xanadu; it is built in the seemly red brick style of the region, but there is something extravagantly not right about it. Imported craftsmen have constructed a spiral staircase behind a secret panel in the wainscoting, and an eight-foot brick wall topped by spikes encloses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frustrated Pygmalion | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

Prophets' Dream. Wallace finally bowed to reality in 1950, when the Communists invaded South Korea. He broke with the Progressive Party, advised the U.S. to rearm "as fast as possible," and became "convinced that Russia is out to dominate the world." In the years of cold war and domestic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Deal: Man with a Hoe | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

∙ John Zink, the millionaire owner of a furnace company, finds adventure atop a 100,000-lb. bulldozer, clearing timber and building roads on a 12,000-acre tract near Tulsa that he is turning into a Boy Scout camp. That's not adventure? Well, it is when one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ADVENTURE & THE AMERICAN INDIVIDUALIST | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

He resigned suddenly in the fall of 1962 to help plan the new university. It occupies a 600 acre tract on the outskirts of Toronto and will admit its first students in August.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: York University Appoints Conway | 11/18/1965 | See Source »

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