Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential study group proposed Wednesday that Congress and the state of Maine give more than $50 million and 300,000 acres of land to two Indian tribes that are seeking to regain possession of more than one-half the land in the state of Maine...
...provisions also stipulate that the Indians drop all charges for the 350,000 acres of state-owned land if Maine will agree to pay the Indians $1.7 million annually for each of the next 15 years. The Indians would also drop claims for three million acres of land owned by large corporations in return for 300,000 acres of average-value timber land and the option to buy 200,000 acres of somewhat poorer-quality land...
...FROM PRETENTIOUS ivory towers and the unsettling cacophony and grime of Eastern industrial cities, far away where neighbors stop to help one another dig drainage ditches and pull trucks out of mud, where everyone still goes to church and prays, where small farmers still rise early to work the land, where metropolises are few and far between, and where a man's willingness to roll up his sleeves and work up a sweat is valued above all attributes--in this place--the people have found a new hero--Cliff Finch, a man who has appeared from nowhere to become within...
...exteriors were shot in Hungary, and the streets of old Budapest served for the Moscow and Petersburg of a century ago. The only missing ingredient, an important one, unfortunately, is a sense of Russian spaciousness, a feeling not so much of a country as of a vast sea of land...
...seems to have enraged everyone he has ever met. His ex-wife's prominent Boston lawyer father pays Aldrich $500 a month alimony to keep his distance-on a 500-acre retreat in Vermont. There, someone systematically blows up and burns down the "tumbledown Disney land" of a condominium that the remittance man has cynically thrown together on the site. An acquaintance Aldrich meets at a bar speaks for thousands when he complains, "You have lied, I think, at least once to everyone in New England...