Word: beachfronts
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...yelled "Squatter" and waved placards claiming THE LAND REALLY BELONGS TO THE INDIANS. "Well," said Pat, smiling wanly, "we have a few friends here. Thank you for coming." Outside San Diego, the smile came easier when a dripping, bare-chested surfer appeared to thank the First Lady for the beachfront real estate...
...that Antigua's prosperity was cruelly selective. He said that the hotels and refinery hired Antiguans for menial work but reserved the best jobs for whites, that the casino collected millions but paid a mere $100,000 yearly in fees, and that the government had sold off choice beachfront property at fire-sale prices and did not even collect taxes on some of it. Meanwhile, Antiguans were beset by a 40% unemployment rate, inadequate sewers and waterlines, overcrowded classrooms, bad telephone service and a $30 million debt...
...Deal Police Chief John Rehm Jr. defends his community's bathing restrictions on the ground that they are necessary to prevent Deal from turning into "another Coney Island." Officials in Washington, D.C., note that a few states and towns have withdrawn applications for federal money to help buy beachfront property under the "Open Space" program. Reason: all such beaches must be open to the public...
...spoken in general terms about its nice weather and its informality. Perhaps the most important factor in his decision to settle there semi-permanently is his long friendship with Bachelor Financier C. G. (Bebe) Rebozo, 57. Millionaire Rebozo's house is considered part of Nixon's new beachfront compound...
...atom, and gentling nature and the passage of time have leached away Bikini's residual radiation. Lush vegetation once more covers the island. Through their long exile, most of it on inhospitable, isolated, mosquito-plagued Kili Island, the 300 or so Bikinians have huddled in a beachfront slum, longing for their beloved strand of islets around a life-sustaining lagoon. They still cannot go home. The U.S. Defense Department wants to keep Bikini for a test site should the nuclear-testban treaty ever break down...