Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lorenz and Novelist Arthur Koestler have redefined Homo sapiens as Homo maniacus, arguing that man appears doomed by some inherent quirk to follow the dinosaur into oblivion. Among the apocalyptically minded, the only question is where Armageddon will begin. Harlem or the Hotel Majestic? The Sorbonne or the Sinai Peninsula...
...even planning a tourist industry along a 25-mile strip of powdery white beach on the eastern end of the island. Appalling poverty and misery still remain, of course; fetid new slums have sprung up north of Santo Domingo, and a yearlong drought in the parched, scabrous southern peninsula has decimated cattle herds...
...horsy enclaves, dude ranches and city bridle paths; it has now massively infiltrated suburbia and even spread to blue-collar areas, where a new status symbol, instead of a second car, can be a stable alongside the garage. In Rolling Hills, on Los Angeles County's Palos Verdes Peninsula, there are now 2,000 people and 4,000 horses. In Kansas City, teen-agers ride their horses through the streets after school. In Lakewood, Colo., an unprecedented 1,100 horsemen turned up for this year's Easter parade. In California alone, horse owners this year will spend...
Last week, for example, the Weyerhaeuser Co. teamed up with the Palo Alto, Calif., home-building firm of Brown & Kauffmann to start an $18 million residential community on the San Francisco peninsula at Los Gatos. Weyerhaeuser will invest more than $3,000,000 in its first venture in home building, and split profits with Brown & Kauffmann. Most of the money is to be borrowed from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at a rate (71%) well below that which the home-building firm might itself have had to pay. Though small companies still dominate the housing business, the trend is running clearly...
...back together. In addition to the purchase price, McCulloch figures that it will cost at least another $3,000,000 to transport and rebuild its prize. To give the bridge a suitable setting, the company will dredge a mile-long cut across the neck of a Lake Havasu City peninsula that juts out into the 45-mile-long lake behind Parker Dam, surround the area with a golf course, marina, motels and inns...