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> Hawaiian Ocean View Estates was advertised as a 10,000-acre development on a "gentle slope" near both ocean and golf courses. What the developers did not say was that much of the slope was lava from Mauna Loa volcano, the beach was 25 miles off and the golf course...
> Rio Grande Estates, 32 miles from Albuquerque, was offered as "the biggest land bargain in the nation'' (at $199 per half-acre lot). But California authorities warned buyers that it was "desert acreage in a remote area." where "purchasers will be required to develop their own water and...
> Some U.S. promoters described their 3,500,000 acres in the Amazon Valley as a wonderful investment at $10 an acre. The U.S. Post Office barred their brochure from the mails when Foreign Service officers reported that the area was impenetrable jungle swarming with insects.
The Arnold Arboretum, a vast Harvard-administered horticultural garden in Jamaica Plain off Route 1, may be partially destroyed if the city of Boston persists in its plans to build a 30 acre consolidated high school in the area, the CRIMSON learned yesterday.
The city and state governments are currently involved in a controversy over the six acre Bussey Institute land which adjoins the Arboretum. If Boston gets the Bussey land, some two dozen acres of the Arboretum would be in danger. Although Harvard administers the Arboretum, the land is owned by the...