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Divorced. George Capron, 79, Los Angeles real estate tycoon (860 acres on Laguna Beach); by Ednah Race Capron, 74, who until now ran his household on a budget of $300 a month; on grounds of cruelty (he denied her a nurse last year when she broke her leg); after 55 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles. Settlement: half his fortune, or $16 million, highest award in California history...
Campeche's settlers come from Mexico's , drought-stricken midsection-mostly from La Laguna, which once produced half of Mexico's cotton but is now a disaster area (TIME, March 15). Each will be moved by the government, supplied with food for a year, given materials for building a cement-block house, 40 acres of fertile land, plus-on a communal basis-five acres of permanently irrigated land and 56 acres of forest and grazing land. Each town will have a school and a health center with a fulltime doctor and two nurses. The government estimates...
Another big Gruen project is a brand-new community called Laguna Niguel, 48 miles south of Los Angeles, in which about 40,000 people will live, work and play on 7,100 acres of rolling range land. The approach of Laguna Niguel's developer, Cabot, Cabot & Forbes of Boston, illustrates the difference between modern real estate development and old-fashioned lay-it-out and put-it-up methods. Before Master Planner Gruen was called in, the location, population growth, family income and industrial potential of the site were analyzed by two market analysts and placed under close scrutiny...
...JAMISON Laguna Beach, Calif...
...government is preparing a bold experiment for La Laguna: it hopes to resettle some 3,000 families in the verdant coastal areas near the Guatemalan border...