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...acres of mostly vacant land south of Los Angeles in Orange County. Six years later Taubman and his partners cashed in on the run-up in the housing market and sold the property for more than $1 billion. Said Taubman proudly: "This is a better deal than the Louisiana Purchase...
...remake North America in the image of its native land." When the question arose of making the U.S. multilingual or multicultural in public affairs, however, Congress stood firm. In the 1790s, 1840s and 1860s, the lawmakers voted down pleas to print Government documents in German. Predominantly French-speaking Louisiana sought statehood in 1812; the state constitution that it submitted for approval specified that its official language would be English. A century later, New Mexico was welcomed into the union, but only after an influx of settlers from the North and East had made English, not Spanish, the majority tongue...
DIED. Theodore Ward, 80, Louisiana-born, Chicago-based playwright whose critically acclaimed major works (Big White Fog, Our Lan') not only depicted racial oppression in America but also sought to create heroic black protagonists; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
...Louisiana soil and what is beneath it have been good to me," said Pennington, who was born and reared in the state and made his fortune in a 40-year career of wildcatting for oil, natural gas and mineral deposits...
University officials said the gift was made official about six weeks ago when the transfer of stocks was completed. The $125 million is a "low estimate," according to James Calhoun, director of information at Louisiana State, and the ultimate value of the gift may well be substantially more...