Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspect is a descendant of the Newhalls, an old and wealthy California family. Both his grandmother, Frances Newhall Woods, and his father, Frederick Nickerson Woods III, hold stock in the family-founded Newhall Land and Farming Co., which has large investments in agriculture, cattle, oil, gas and land. Despite his background, Chip Woods has succeeded in very little so far in his young life; he could not even hold a job as a paint salesman. His wife divorced him in 1972 on the first anniversary of their marriage. About all that he seemed to be good at-and interested...
...fast as possible"), he built up a cando, populist image. Although he was popular and admired, Kaku-san was never able to free himself of the whiff of financial scandal. Typical was the Shinano-Gawa riverbed case of 1964. A nameless company bought an abandoned tract of dry land in the Shinano River, then made a killing later on when the government revealed railroad and highway projects that caused land prices to skyrocket; the company also turned out to have a former secretary to Tanaka on its board of directors. Though accused repeatedly of corruption, Tanaka until last week always...
...drought-have brought adequate harvests, but the moisture may prove to be a mixed blessing. The rainfall spawned an almost biblical plague of rats, locusts and caterpillars in Mali, Senegal, Mauritania and Upper Volta. Millions of gerbils, which U.S. children often keep as pets, are loose on the land in Niger, devouring everything in sight...
...intrigues one must initiate to remain one. In 1975 it was voted as the best science fiction novel of all time by the readers of Locust, a New York City-based "fanzine," ahead of classics like Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. It is good popular fiction; by which I mean it rates with the best of Eric Ambler...
These attitudes aren't particularly startling. They don't belong exclusively to the people who clustered about the highest office in the land. It's a bit revealing, though, that they pervade these books to such a large degree...