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...really pointing toward is Chicago. There, come the last week of August, they intend to hold a six-day "Festival of Life" in comic contrast to what they call the Democratic Party's "National Death Convention," which will be running concurrently. The Yippies aim to set up a lakefront tent village in Grant Park, where they can groove on folk songs, rock bands, "guerrilla" theater, body painting and meditation. Through the park they will bear on a blue pillow their very own presidential candidate: Lyndon Pigasus Pig, a ten-week-old black and white porker now afattening...
There are no hotels and few places to eat in the area, and delegates will have to commute from the Loop via a single expressway or the back streets of the ghetto. The city's mammoth lakefront exhibition hall--closer to downtown, isolated from residential ears, and far easier to defend--was gutted by fire a year ago, but Daley's clout and assurance of peace brought the party to Chicago anyway...
...Illinois Central tracks just east of Michigan Avenue nearly twelve years ago, and only last month, the last legal obstacles were removed from plans to construct $1 billion worth of apartments and office buildings over 188 acres of Illinois Central track and switching yard near Chicago's lakefront...
...TIME states that Weyerhaeuser "is converting its forest holdings in five states into summer homes, lakefront recreation centers [Feb. 5]." The fact is that of some 3.6 million acres of forest lands held by the company, only 7,000 acres have been segregated for real estate development in the five states...
...range of realty ventures is kaleidoscopic. Weyerhaeuser, the timber giant, is converting its forest holdings in five states into summer homes, lakefront recreation centers and even such ski resorts as Crystal Village, 76 miles from Seattle. Goodyear Tire & Rubber recently set aside $5,000,000 to speed the transformation of 14,000 acres of its property near Phoenix into Litchfield Park, which it hopes will become a satellite city of 90,000 people by 1985. Great Lakes Carbon Corp. is busy with six projects, ranging from a Houston industrial park to a resort and retirement center in Portugal. Hearst Corp...