Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Almost anyone will eat vanilla ice cream. But damn it, people get turned on by pistachio and butter pecan...
That is a rather unusual creed for a real estate developer. Butter-pecan houses? But Emil Hanslin, a weather-beaten, chain-smoking dynamo of 52, is an unusual developer. An early proponent of cluster housing, he is now experimenting with a new way to preserve open space. Says he: "It's a very simple thing but a big idea. The buyer buys the whole acre, but he gives up part of his land to the community. That makes him feel like the Rockefellers, creating a system of space that he can enjoy and others can enjoy...
...Eastman from 10% to 50% of his land (depending on "what creates the most advantageous site") as permanent open space. In this way, almost 30% of the land will be preserved. It is one of the best conservation ideas since cluster planning; it also sells as easily as, well, butter-pecan ice cream. Some 475 plots have already gone...
...changed, but Bess Myerson, onetime Miss America and now New York City Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, did sound a bit wistful as she told a Daily News columnist how the medieval French used to keep merchants honest. A royal edict of 1481 held that "anyone who sells butter that contains stones or other things to add to the weight will be put into our pillory; then said butter will be placed on his head until entirely melted by the sun. Dogs may lick him and people offend him with whatever defamatory epithets they please without offense to God or king...
...Area Urban League: "The majority of Oakland's citizens are black. Bobby Scale is no dummy; he has a large following. Most of the programs the Panthers now have were going on in the past, but they were overshadowed by rhetoric. The Panthers are going from guns to butter...