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After the long weeks of buildup, of insisting upon his innocence, of accusing Government officials of plotting his downfall, of vowing that he would fight to the end, the denouement of the Spiro Agnew debacle came with stunning swiftness. His hands trembling slightly and his Palm Springs tan bleached white with tension, Agnew walked into a Baltimore courtroom last week and admitted that he had falsified his income tax in 1967. When he emerged half an hour later, Agnew had been transformed from Vice President of the United States into a convicted felon...
...week and proclaimed: "I am still optimistic." He was referring to the prospects of a break in the marathon dispute between the two Communist giants, but his hope must have been fed by the convivial atmosphere. In fact, signs of a Sino-Soviet thaw are about as scarce as palm trees in Peking or Moscow...
...Palm Coast, Fla., is an immense undertaking of an International Telephone and Telegraph subsidiary, which is cutting up 92,000 acres midway between St. Augustine and Daytona Beach into lots that company executives think will house 650,000 people by the year 2000. ITT has put some thought into planning: residential areas will be separated by greenbelts, and all houses (only 180 built so far) will be hooked up to company-owned water and sewage plants. But ITT can harvest timber from a buyer's lot until his payments are completed, leaving him with the cost of removing stumps...
...swampy southern fringe $900 per acre Disney World, north on Lake Hancock Road $4,000 per acre Sundance ski resort, 60 miles from Salt Lake City $10,000-$13,000 per acre Lakeway resort community, near Austin, Texas $25,000-$70,000 per ⅓-to ½ acre Palm Springs, Calif., vicinity of airport $100,000 per acre Lake Tahoe, Calif., waterfront lots $1,000 per front ft. Koko Kai, Oahu, Hawaii, ocean-front on marina $125,000 for less than ½ acre
...suburban, packed instead with movie made stars and other with-it celebrities. But tennis has for years been the pet game of these beautiful few. The Efren Zimbalist Jr. Open is by now an old institution. No, the match was made for newer fans. For the country clubbers from Palm Beach to Piping Rock, for all mixed doubles faddists, for the people who have made tennis Big Business, the match was going to be a happening...