Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard bought 700 acres of the Estabrook Woods in Concord from a group of private owners, and an 30-acre tract from the estate of the late Edward M. Pickman '08, located in nearby Bedford. This property, added to the neighboring 2000-acre National Fish and Wildlife Refuge of the Concord River, will serve as a nature lab for studying geology, the effect of plant-eating fauna on vegetation, and methods to control animal population...
...reported the first promising results (TIME, May 18, 1962). Freezing the stomach wall for a short time, Dr. Wangensteen explained, knocks out much of its capacity for producing hydrochloric acid, thus reducing the amount of the corrosive juice that flows into the duodenum, the next chamber down the digestive tract. If acid production should bounce back, he said, the stomach could safely be refrozen. (Whether the technique should be used for gastric ulcers, in the stomach itself, is a separate, unresolved question...
Result is the high-rise retirement apartment, and across the U.S. they are appearing in increasing numbers in major communities. The advantages are multiple. The downtown developer still gets all the financial help offered tract developers. And the retired have a home that is within walking distance of downtown, to which they can invite old friends for cocktails, or children and grandchildren for dinner. Unless they look hard, visitors do not even notice the necessary modifications-doors wide enough for wheelchairs, grab bars in the bathtub, raised electrical sockets (to save stooping), and panic buttons for emergencies. To the tenants...
...John Zink, the millionaire owner of a furnace company, finds adventure atop a 100,000-lb. bulldozer, clearing timber and building roads on a 12,000-acre tract near Tulsa that he is turning into a Boy Scout camp. That's not adventure? Well, it is when one considers that Zink is 72 years old, and that he has more than once had to throw himself clear when his huge dozer overturned in the rugged country. "Of course it's dangerous," snorts Zink. "But I haven't any time for country clubs or flitting off to Europe...
...resigned suddenly in the fall of 1962 to help plan the new university. It occupies a 600 acre tract on the outskirts of Toronto and will admit its first students in August...