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...never been happier. I wouldn't trade places with God." So says George M. Foster, 57, who sold his flourishing Los Angeles ice cream and catering business two years ago to become the operator of a boat marina at the fledgling Arizona town of Lake Havasu City. Foster's spirit is typical of the 2,500 settlers in three-year-old Havasu, an "instant city" built by the California-based McCulloch Oil Corp. along part of the 45-mile lake behind Parker Dam on the lower Colorado River...
Located 235 miles due east of Los Angeles, and surrounded by miles of scorching and sparsely inhabited desert, Havasu stands in an unlikely place for anything as ambitious as a new town. Indeed, the rest of the nation's two dozen such communities are sprouting close to major population centers. Yet McCulloch Oil reported last week that...
...Havasu land sales rose to $18 million in 1966, accounting for the bulk of the company's $23 million revenues and much of its $2,800,000 profits...
...HAVASU LAKE, in western Arizona, is part of a model city now abloom in the desert under the aegis of Los Angeles Saw King Robert McCulloch. McCulloch confidently expects his two-runway recreation center to be one of the principal drawing cards for the project...