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...putting their money into things that they can touch and handle: paintings, rare coins, new cars and refrigerators. By far the most popular of these palpable investments is land, which offers the buyer the rare psychological opportunity to speculate and still feel cloaked with the prestige of the property holder...
...only offensive starter left from last year's 10-2-1 team is senior Felix Adedeji. A first-team All-Ivy performer and Ivy-scoring-record holder his sophomore year, Adedeji managed second-team All-Ivy honors a year ago despite having to play nearly the entire season with painful muscle spasms in his back...
...holder of one of them is Dr. Eduardo Plarr. Plarr's British father has been held for years in a Paraguayan prison, and Plarr has not only become involved with the kidnapers but is the lover of Charley Fortnum's young wife. When Fortnum winds up a hostage, Plarr finds himself in one of those absurd and passionate plights that Greene is so skillful at convincing us are truthful metaphors for man's lot in life. "Let this comedy end as comedy," Plarr says in mock prayer. "None of us are suited for tragedy." But naturally, this...
...estate. Nixon hoped that all but six acres surrounding his Casa Pacifica might be bought from him by a presidential foundation set up in his name for the creation of a library. For reasons that have never been made public, that plan fell through, leaving Nixon the holder of more California real estate than he could afford. Evidently as a result, he was forced to negotiate a new loan to pay the 1970 installment ($100,000) on his promissory notes, plus interest on the unpaid balance, which was then accumulating at the rate of $75,000 annually. To obtain those...
...where motorists can move between capitals-and cultures-with a few hours' drive, the wide-open spaces of the U.S. can take considerable time and money to cross. By far the cheapest way to do it is a special $99 bus pass available only to foreigners, entitling the holder to unlimited travel for 21 days. Taking advantage of that bargain, Keith Wright, 30, a British tooland diemaker, and his wife Denise, 25, managed to stay within their blue-collar budget yet travel 8,000 miles around the U.S. Since food, gasoline and other staples of everyday life are frequently...