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...President and the Indians were there for a major event: signing of the revolutionary government's promised land-reform decree. The law will expropriate big estates of landlords (half of them absentee proprietors), who own 70% of Bolivia's farmland, paying for them in 25-year government bonds. For 400 years Indians have lived on these lands virtually as serfs, working the owners' fields three days a week in return for their own small plots of potatoes, corn, barley and pigweed seed (a cereal). In practice, landlords have been able to buy and sell the farm hands...
...acres of rolling Ohio farmland, bulldozers last week completed the grading job for a village of 10,000 inhabitants. Contracts were signed for some nine miles of streets, curbs and sewers, and construction crews.were building a pumping station and a million-gallon water tank. Lincoln Village, a $30 million town planned from sidewalks to railroad sidings, was being born...
Died. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 74, second Duke of Westminster and one of the world's richest landlords; of coronary thrombosis; in Loch More, Scotland. Reportedly worth $168 million in inherited real estate (e.g.. 200,000 acres of farmland, 600 acres of London's West End. including the site of the U.S. embassy), the fun-loving duke was a World War I hero, a collector of great art (e.g., Gainsborough's The Blue Boy), and a ladies' man (four marriages, three divorces). To celebrate his third marriage (to Socialite Loelia Ponsonby) in 1930, he granted...
With a cool $32 million to give away last year, the Ford Foundation has sprinkled its largesse into many a remote cranny.* Last week it was training its sights on a tract of blooming farmland near Jericho, where the crops are wheat, oranges, and above all, hope. It is a Boystown -the first in the Middle East-for Arab children left homeless and orphaned by the Arab-Israeli...
...eyes peer tentatively, and he looks far more of a scholar than an evangelist. Yet 15 years ago his church gave him one of the toughest U.S. missionary assignments it had. St. John's parish in North Carolina's western mountains was eight counties of hardscrabble farmland, with only 50 resident Catholics and not a single Catholic church...