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Last week he was once again proving this in his most ambitious project: Salton City, 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles. By the desert's curious standards, Salton City is something of a bargain. Though the summer heat is high (up to 125° F.) and the land is low (234 ft. below sea level), there is water and there is a major highway (U.S. 99). By car and plane, buyers hustled to the sun-struck sands and low-lying, spiny, green clumps of greasewood along the shores of 30-mile-long Salton Sea. There they plunked down...
Three years ago, Phillips started buying his 19,600 acres along the west shores of Salton Sea for $2.4 million, divided it into 54,000 lots, most of them about one-third of an acre. Thus far, 11,000 lots have been developed with streets and water (from a 658-ft.-deep artesian well), and close to 7,000 have been sold despite their high ($2,000 to $4,000) price tags...
Asked about Sherman Adams, Salton-still affirmed Adams' "basic honesty" and added, smiling, "He never did anything for me that he shouldn't have." "You will notice there is no mention of integrity in government in this year's platform," said the Senator...
...first heard Thursday night that the Secretary of State, on the recommendation of both Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge '24 and Senator Leverett Salton-stall '14 (R-Mass.), would submit his name to President Eisenhower...
Acting as chief marshal for the class will be C. Douglas Dillon, U.S. envoy to France and chairman of Dillon, Read and Company. He follows in the footsteps of Robert H. Bradford '23, ex-Governor of Massachusetts, and William G. Salton-stall '28, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, a well-known New Hampshire boys school...