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Sparsely scattered throughout the fields and woods of this Downeast region are the rural communities for which Route 1 is Main Street. Cherryfield, Columbia Falls, Jonesboro, Machias--all are homes to an average of several hundred inhabitants who use the road to drive to the fields during the day, and...

Author: By Daniel H. Maccoby, | Title: Walking Through Maine With 'Down-to-Earth' Bill | 10/10/1973 | See Source »

Well, at least he called it a back yard. Even though there were rocks and boulders scattered across the playing surface and the whole thing was cross-hatched with drainage ditches. But nevertheless, it was still the best place available, despite its primitiveness.

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 10/6/1973 | See Source »

Real estate men know that the big profits come not from buying raw land and sitting on it but from cutting it up into lots for housing, commercial and industrial sites For that reason, developers have platted (divided into precisely mapped portions) millions of building lots across the U.S. far...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The New American Land Rush | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

In fact, the terrorists' maddeningly effective ability to spread havoc and fear is far out of proportion to their numbers. Police believe that no more than six persons, split between two small Provisional I.R.A. cells, are involved. The war of nerves, as Scotland Yard sees it, is a desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: The Provos' Problems | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

The Housing Authority will be able to fill the vacancies, Yuse said, although newspaper publicity and the popularity of the city's rent subsidy program make the task more difficult. The subsidy program allows aid recipients to live in scattered privately-owned buildings instead of massing them into public projects...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Roosevelt Towers Burns While Bureaucrats Fiddle | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

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