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...first came to the West, particularly from the owned and fought-over farmlets of Europe, and saw so much land to be had for the signing of a paper and the building of a foundation, an itching land-greed seemed to come over them. They wanted more and more land???good land if possible, but land anyway . . . The early settlers took up land they didn't need and couldn't use; they took up worthless land just to own it. ?John Steinbeck, East of Eden...
...jobs, Columbia has five self-sufficient village centers, each made up of three or four neighborhoods. The city's population is about 20% black. "Columbia works," says Rouse, who lives in a low, modern home there. "It's not some half-baked Utopia. It makes good use of the land???hell, 30% of Columbia is park land...
...when the great scorers in the studio accounting offices come to write the names of the annual box-office winners and losers in their ledgers, the names of Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds reliably turn up in ink as black and shiny as the latter's hairpiece. Across the land???in drive-ins and shopping-center triplexes, even in the big cities, where action pictures still provide the underclass with the same kind of escape they always have?Eastwood and Reynolds draw people to theaters in astonishing numbers...
...Nhut airport for evacuation flights home. For North Viet Nam, Thieu's departure represented a stunning triumph. After 30 years of fighting French legionnaires, fellow Vietnamese and American G.I.s, after standing up to the technology and will of the world's greatest power, this small agrarian land???albeit one well supplied by China and the Soviet Union?was finally on the verge of victory. What durable, wily old Ho Chi Minh had insisted on, what his heirs in Hanoi had continued to demand?the departure of the Americans and their chosen government in the South?was finally coming to pass...
Until recently, she was the envy of secretaries throughout the land???a spunky, hard-working woman who had risen high from humble beginnings. The daughter of a second-generation Irish American who worked in a pottery factory, Rose Mary Woods grew up in Sebring, Ohio (pop. 5,000), and learned her stenography in high school. Except for Older Brother Joe, who became an FBI agent