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∙LAND. Bobby became a land speculator after Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers sold both Baker and Scott Peek, at that time Smathers' administrative assistant, one-eighth shares in a 143-acre development near Orlando, Fla. Baker paid $1,500 for his share, has so far got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Silent Witness | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

For some, the logistics of housekeeping are enormously complex. Rocky and Happy constantly shuttle between the executive mansion in Albany, their 14-room Fifth Avenue apartment (estimated cost: at least $150,000, plus yearly maintenance of $20,000), and their 3,000-acre estate in Westchester County's Pocantico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: TEES, TIGERS, TITMICE--& A PRESIDENT TOO? | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

Swarthmore,* which last week began celebrating its centennial year, was founded by the liberal Hicksite Quakers to combat "a dead level of mediocrity in the education of our children." For a while it was best known as "the Quaker matchbox," a 300-acre playground for sowing Quaker oats and finding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Swarthmore's 100th | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

Would Bill and June take dinner with Lady Bird and the President? White had been half expecting the call. "It was a kind of reflex action," he said later. "Just the sort of thing a fellow would do-to call up a friend and ask him to come over to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: The One with Connections | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

The Roosevelt Raceway management did all it could to make the customers comfortable. Crews worked around the clock to clear 7 in. of snow from the track and the 250-acre parking lot (at a cost of $10,000); 146 infra-red heaters burned above the seats, and low-pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: Sport of Governors | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

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