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...Summa real estate holdings are a potential jackpot. The company owns 29,000 acres in Nevada; only the Federal Government has more land in the state. Summa is about to sell 12,000 acres in Tucson and is sitting on an additional 1,200 acres in the affluent Playa del Rey section of Los Angeles...
Italian Americans, after he cracked in 1974 that the Pope should not oppose birth-control programs because "he no playa da game, he no make-a da rules." But when he tried to impress John Dean and Pat Boone, it was Earl's last laugh...
...Playa del Key, Calif...
Today the resort that Post named Tres Vidas en la Playa (translation: "three lives on the beach") is slowly reverting to the thicket it once was. On once velvety golf links, cattle nibble at the patches of imported English grass that have survived months of neglect. Rows of expensive golf carts sit rusting in the salt spray from the nearby Pacific. The Olympic and villa pools, long stagnant, are covered with algae-green slime. Outside the compound's wrought-iron gates, striking waiters, maids and maintenance men-who have been picketing since July under a red and black strike...
...Pope Paul VI had opposed population control in an audience with delegates to last month's World Food Conference in Rome, a point of view that angered many of those concerned, like Butz, about overpopulation. But Butz heedlessly reiterated his position in a mock Italian accent: "He no playa the game, he no maka the rules...