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...million house is not a home-and it no longer symbolizes California. As just about everybody knows by now Reagan's successor, Jerry Brown, refuses to inspect, much less inhabit the abode, conspicuously preferring to bunk downtown in a modest $275-a-month apartment. Today this monument to the California dream stands cold and mute, an incongruous reminder of an era that no longer exists...
...pine trees that could be turned into valuable pulpwood) and began developing the 4,500-acre Sea Pines Plantation. It became a world-renowned resort that respected the environment -the pine trees are still standing, and the 'gators and a host of sea birds still make it their home-and also turned a handsome profit. Buoyed by that success, the insatiably ambitious Fraser went public in 1973, selling 400,000 shares in his Sea Pines Co. at $ 18 a share, while embarking on a series of other projects. The most important by far was Palmas...
...second round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and more generally in the brittle areas of Middle East relationships, military-force levels in Europe and U.S.-Soviet trade. But hopes were deflated by the unexpectedly hard line on the part of Soviet negotiators. By the time Kissinger headed for home-and his wedding (see THE NATION)-he was visibly worried over the diplomatic crevasses that had appeared in place of diplomatic bridges. For Nixon, who counts on strong accomplishments abroad to offset political problems at home, the results could only be disheartening. What was to have been a triumphal presidential...
...European investors, the U.S. offers an abundant supply of skilled labor-which is increasingly scarce at home-and an inflation rate that is low by current European standards. Farb-werke Hoechst AG, a West German chemical company, will spend $30 million this year to expand two existing American plants. Britain's Cadbury Schweppes Ltd. broke ground last month on a $10 million chocolate factory in Hazleton...
...priest and marched at Selma: a 70-ft., three-bedroom, three-bath cabin cruiser anchored in San Francisco Bay, its brass-filigreed bow and mahogany-planked deck gleaming in the sun. But for California's boat-loving C. Kilmer Myers, the Daring will serve as a year-round home-and Myers is paying the reported $50,000 price out of his own pocket. When Myers was elected to the see of California in 1966, after the resignation of the late James A. Pike, he inherited a 19-room mansion that the diocese, at Pike's request, had bought...