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Some of the shrewdest German buyers are flocking to the "Irish Riviera," as they call Eire's eastern counties, where farm land is almost one-fourth the price of comparable terrain in high-priced Germany. However, prices usually soar at the drop of a guttural. After failing to sell 67 rocky acres for $1,000 in 1959, a County Cork farmer recently unloaded 15 of them for $8,000. High prices and scarce land have also brought prosperity to con men. Last week on the Spanish coast, where in some places land has doubled in price...
...belated but rousing three cheers for all the men who make the skyscrapers soar...
...said, desire you-and to soar, But I am heavy, the world is either/or And I know that to be is not to be content. So heavy, I am determined on descent...
Massive Counterbalance. What last week's sorry squabble ignored is the undeniable, if unpalatable, fact that exclusion from Europe means certain economic and political decline for Britain, whose exports to the Commonwealth are dwindling as its sales to the Common Market soar. Physically, in the jet age, Britain is already a part of Europe; with formal economic and political ties to the Continent, Macmillan is convinced that the nation will not only provide an expanding market for Commonwealth goods but also, by the very nature of its Commonwealth ties, ensure that the new Europe will not develop into...
Some time in mid-December, if all goes well, the spacecraft Mariner II will skim within a scant 10,000 miles of Venus. Like a great mechanical bug, it will point its electronic eyes at the cloud-covered planet; and then, after a brief, 30-minute look, it will soar past to lose itself in orbit around the sun. But before it cruises beyond radio range of earth. Mariner should report back to its human creators and tell them more than man has ever known before about his planetary neighbor, the heavenly body that most resembles earth in orbit, size...