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Some of the houses in Leawood are more than 40 years old, but the town only began to blossom in the late 1930s when the Kroh Bros, real estate company undertook a major development. Now there are nearly 11,000 residents in just over 3,000 houses-ranch-styles and split-levels with a good sprinkling of two-stories. The lawns are spacious, and there is often a paddock with two or three horses gamboling about. Some of the original houses that once sold for less than $25,000 would probably be worth twice that today; newer houses range from...
...long the eerie tranquillity will last is a matter of conjecture. Many administrators fear a return of unrest in the spring, when youthful exuberances always blossom anew. Even if there is no further trouble, campus quiet is not synonymous with campus health. Oases for ideas, universities should be places of ferment. The violence of the past few years was, of course, unacceptable, but the student movement has called the nation's attention to some of its weaknesses?a hidebound educational establishment, inequitable draft laws, unrepresentative political procedures, to mention some of the most legitimate targets of protest. Despite...
...Committee on Students and Community Relations will blossom from six to 15 student members (with 16 from the Faculty, making 31), to be elected one from each House, two Freshmen, and three from the GSAS...
...winds of up to 70 m.p.h., the fire blasted down on Greene's $70,000 house, vaporized the commune. James Parnell, 82, one of the original settlers of the valley, lost his house and 27 of his 28 Maltese cats. With their driveway blocked by flames, Bud and Blossom Sniveley jounced across the fields in their car just ahead of the fire that turned their farm to cinders. Much of Jamul itself was incinerated...
Death March. Each day Fuji's 150 paper mills pour 2,000,000 tons of raw waste into Tagonoura's waters. The catch of cherry-blossom prawns, a gourmet delicacy unique to the area, has been halved in recent years. Pulp sludge has settled on the floor of the port, reducing the depth of the channel from 30 ft. to 18 ft.-too shallow for even small freighters...