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...facts and sets them in a good light. Kemal Atatürk emerges as a political genius immingled with a moral moron, a man with the intellect of a Western liberal and the disposition of an Oriental despot, a loving father to his country all day long, but after sunset a dedicated lecher and incorrigible lush...
...companies everywhere own land for plants and offices, but the companies now moving into real estate are involved in land and construction ventures that go well beyond the scope of their primary business. "The major fortunes in America have been made in land," says Morton A. Sterling, president of Sunset International Petroleum Corp. "There's no reason why corporations can't participate...
Returns from such deals can be sizable. Sunset Petroleum, which is building huge new towns near Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, got 73% of its $27.7 million revenue from realty last year. Land development and brokerage accounted for 14% of its $25 million gross for the venerable West Coast lumber firm of Pope & Talbot. Puget Sound Power & Light Co. realized 10% of its net income from such realty operations as an industrial park, 515 acres for homes, a hotel and a shopping center...
Noonday at "Pali." One anthropologically absorbing place to watch these characteristics in interplay is the wall-less, roofed area for cafeteria tables at Pacific Palisades High School, bordering on Sunset Boulevard. "Pali," as the kids call it, is a new, $7,000,000, red brick campus lor 2,100 upper-middle-class students. "These are the students' cars," says English Teacher Jeanne Hernandez, pointing to a fast collection of "wheels" ranging up to Jags, "and there are the teachers' cars," pointing to a sedate group of compacts and the like. "It's so lush here that...
...Tijuana, Mexico, but in all that time he won only four minor tournaments, finally quit to take a club pro's job in 1963, saying, "My nerves can't take it any more." But every now and then, when things get a little lonely around the Sunset Oaks Country Club in Sacramento, Calif., Harney packs off to play a few rounds with his old traveling buddies...