Word: developed
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Farmers grow too much on too much land. City wage earners have money, free weekends, but nowhere to go. Trying to alleviate these dual problems, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has instituted a program offering family farmers longterm loans up to $60,000 to develop "camping grounds, swimming facilities, tennis courts, riding stables, vacation cottages and lodges, lakes and ponds for boating and fishing, docks, nature trails, picnic grounds and hunting preserves...
...four months since the program's inception. 306 farmers have applied for loans. A typical case: a small New Jersey dairy farmer, who wants to develop a seven-acre lake on his land to provide camp sites and boating facilities for vacationers and fishermen. The project would yield the applicant an estimated $3,000 in net income-about as much as he now earns from farming...
...Garner, 31, onetime child star who grew up and out of fame: Albert Salmi, 35, blond screen and TV actor; on grounds of mental cruelty (she testified that their continuing argument over whether to live in Hollywood or New York caused her to twist her neck violently and develop a thyroid condition); after nearly seven years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...descriptions and characterizations can leave an indelible impression on the listener: "I have great respect for Secretary McNamara. He is the first man since Forrestal to subdue the Defense Department--Forrestal committed suicide." The Senator's active wit appears in many guises. He has developed a large repertoire of anecdotes, many of them about politics and politicians, which he tells well. Some quips he intends largely to amuse: "The only subject on which Mr. about virtually every subject Congress considers, but foreign policy particularly interests him. At the beginning of his third year in the Senate he readily accepted...
Next year Leverett will have a new Master, Richard T. Gill '48, the present Senior Tutor, mentor of Ec. 1, and master designer of the now College-wide tutorial-for-all program. One of Gill's projects for the future is to develop an even closer relation between students, junior staff (tutors), and senior staff (House associates...