Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peking University were trying out some stately fox trots. Before the normalization ceremonies, Chinese officials at Peking's International Club began dancing cautiously to the disco beat of Stayin' Alive from Saturday Night Fever. Peking Radio startled its listeners by repeatedly playing Woody Guthrie's This Land Is Your Land ("From California to the New York Island, . . . This land was made...
These happy few share in an unusual private fiefdom called R-Ranch (Get it?-"Our Ranch"), one of three such pioneering parks in the state. The idea is simple: an outdoorsman buys an R-Ranch ownership share that grants him not a piece of the land but a piece of the action: recreational free rein over the whole park area. This makes R-Ranch an almost ideal solution to the problem of wilderness use. The land is kept from subdividers; it is also saved from typical state park despoilment. After all, R-Ranchers are hardly apt to litter their...
That makes the land buyers a curious blend of investor-cum-idealist. R-Ranch's founder is Jeff Dennis, 55, a rancher and hunter who tells of bunking with fellow Marine Ted Williams when both men were flying F9 Panther jets over Korea. Says he: "I'm not an out-and-out environmentalist, but I believe in keeping as much land intact as we can." He paid about $5 million for five adjoining cattle ranches that totaled 5,119 acres, then in 1971 established his park with amenities that include more than 850 campsites and a large bunkhouse...
...acre stretch of timberland in the sparsely populated northeast corner of the state (near Alturas). Facilities include a general store, laundromat and gas station, all of which made the $995 base price for shares so inviting that more than a few campers were incredulous about the park's land value. Doubts soon dissolved: so far, 2,800 ownerships have been sold (ceiling...
...venture was such a success that Carlsberg opened posher Stallion Springs Horse Ranch in semiarid land north of Los Angeles. Campers at Stallion are less interested in roughing it than riding it, drawn by the park's boarding stables, corrals and an equestrian show ring that seats 600. Though he also runs a profitable real estate and construction company, Carlsberg is concerned, he says, about "retaining land as much as possible in its natural beauty...