Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward Lazar, 40, accountant and mortgage-company president, gunned down in February 1975 in a Phoenix parking garage the night before he was to appear before a grand jury investigating land speculation...
...issue, stated simply, is whether that genie is good or evil. Proponents of this research in DNA-the master molecule of life-are convinced that it can help point the way toward a new promised land-of understanding and perhaps curing cancer and such inherited diseases as diabetes and hemophilia; of inexpensive new vaccines; of plants that draw their nitrogen directly from the air rather than from costly fertilizers; of a vastly improved knowledge of the genetics of all plants and animals, including eventually even humans (TIME special section, April...
...popular satirical weekly, suggested that he was obstructing a police investigation into the disappearance of the Earl of Lucan, accused of murdering his children's nanny. Private Eye has since conceded that its story was inaccurate, but Goldsmith is still suing for criminal libel, which could land the editor in jail...
...accented English, she liked to say: "Banks tell me I am a top business person. They say to me, you have such a mind. The bankers can't even follow." Adela spun sugarplum stories of wonderful "deals" through which she could help people multiply their money by buying land in Spain and selling it for huge markups, or by shipping Japanese cars to Indonesia, or by getting into the import-export trade. And a lot of folks, credulous and captivated, begged to get in on the action...
...There was a Master come unto the earth, born in the holy land of Indiana, raised in the mystical hills east of Fort Wayne." So begins Illusions, the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Delacorte Press; $5.95), by the man who gave the world Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Richard Bach's latest whimsy is about an automobile mechanic named Donald Shimoda who barnstorms around the Midwest and preaches homilies. An old barnstormer himself, Bach used to dream of meeting just such a man to answer his questions like: "Why are we living?" Responding to his own questions, he has his character...