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In 1963, Macy's Department Store decided to build a branch in Queens, N.Y., began to buy up all the property on a prime five-acre site. As quickly as anyone could say money, everyone had sold out - except for Mary Sondek, an elderly mother of six, who lived...
The Texas farm where Farmer Marvin Shurbet raises wheat and cotton is part of the 22-million-acre Southern High Plains region, where 30 years ago the onslaught of irrigation began taking more water out of the ground than rains could replace. The High Plains' water table has receded...
On the Sly. Jim Clark has been "inner-directed" ever since he was nine and studied every move his father made as he drove the family Austin Seven around the fields of Edington Mains, the Clarks' 1,200-acre Berwickshire farm. One evening Mama Clark glanced out the window...
"You can only work a field so many seasons in a row before it becomes barren," he said at the end. "I don't think Paar's half acre is completely worn out, but it has gotten a little dry lately." Yet "some day I may re-enter...
Pitt had long been a Mellon family beneficiary-$74 million in the last 20 years. Last month Mellon and his wife quite pointedly gave $5,000,000 to Carnegie Tech, where students refer to Pitt's 42-story Cathedral of Learning as "The Height of Ignorance," and $2,000...