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...Like roller disco and hot tubs, land leasing is most popular in California, but it was hardly invented there. In 1632, King Charles I of England leased a huge tract of land on Chesapeake Bay to Lord Baltimore. The rent: two Indian arrows annually, plus one-fifth of all the gold and silver found on the property. Lord Baltimore established Maryland Colony on the land and leased out parcels to settlers. Ground rents are still a tradition in Baltimore. More than half of the 50,000 homes in Baltimore's inner city are on leased land. The contracts...
...Sony Chairman and Co-Founder Akio Morita because he wanted to be able to listen to high fidelity music while playing tennis, the sets allow the novelty of taking one's favorite music where it could never go before. Said Los Angeles Carpenter Howard Bogaz, 25, while roller-skating on the colorful Venice, Calif., strand: "I use it while I'm working, I take it when I ski or on long drives. I'm into my music! The sun is out, the wind is blowing, and you're on your wheels...
Worn out and befuddled, Snaporaz is tucked into bed by two girls in go-go costumes. He hears giggling nearby, and crawls under the bed to investigate. A spin along a velvet-lined roller coaster track treats him to a panorama of his past sexual encounters. At the bottom of the track, in hideous anticipation, wait the women of the convention. They hurl him into a cage and truck him off to his trial. Acquitted of an unknown crime. Snaporaz elects nevertheless to suffer the punishment: revelation of his Ideal Woman...
...most accounts, this effort falls short. The finer journalistic works on the Senate have interesting vignettes and biographical portraits, while the political science books have some kind of historical background. Lacking both, Roll Call is an anomaly--a 300-page roller coaster that leaves us exactly where we started...
...said, and everybody's talking about manipulating the money market, or parachute jumping, or that group therapy where everybody sits nude in a big tub of Wesson Oil. Yeah, said another citizen, there you are in your clean bowling shirt and they all want to go to the roller disco. "People think they have to be able to discuss everything, enjoy everything. They have an irrational impulse to be interesting." (The quotation was so good Troise later used it in his International Dull Day proclamation last Oct. 16.) That was the kind of folderol that used to fill...