Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most responsible for ending the prosecutions, however, was Harvard president Increase Mather (A.B. 1656). He and some other Cambridge ministers, meeting in Old Harvard Hall, agreed that no court should condemn anyone to death on the basis of "spectral evidence" alone. Mather followed up at once by composing a tract, Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits, which was instrumental in persuading the Governor to end the sorry business; and, visiting in prison a number of persons who had under pressure confessed to witchcraft, Mather got eight of them to recant...
...Chabrol's brilliant film (in translation, A Piece of Pleasure) is not to be understood as a triangle à la mode. It is not about love or even about the ways we contrive to squander it. Nor is it to be read as a women's lib tract. Rather, the film examines the psychology of marital separation, to show us as no movie ever has some of the mental states one must endure in this increasingly common condition...
...Getty's wealth was laid in 1949, when he outbid rivals and won (for $9,500,000 and royalties of $1,000,000 a year for three years) the oil rights to Saudi Arabia's 50% interest in the Neutral Zone, a barren 2,500 sq. mile tract that the Saudis owned jointly with Kuwait. For three years the Getty leases produced no oil, but in the fourth Getty struck it rich. By 1955, his wells were producing more than 4,000,000 bbls. of oil a year. Today, they are the chief source of oil for Getty...
...frugal of late. He has fired the gaggle of Harvard M.B.A.s who flocked to Hilton Head in the early 1970s. In order to reduce Sea Pines' towering debt, he has sold Palmas Del Mar-taking a $13 million loss -and deeded back to the lender the North Carolina tract where he planned to build the Nantahala/Heritage Park. He has also shelved plans for several smaller resorts where "almost any member of the middle class" could enjoy a few days of outdoor recreation for a modest price. "Making a profit is listed in the corporate objectives as No. 4," says...
...University's real estate holdings, though not administered by the Development Office, are still an important source of alumni gifts that currently offer substantial financial benefits to Harvard. Sail Fish Point, Fla., a 775-acre tract in some of the finest undeveloped land along the Florida coast, is typical of Harvard's bizarre but rich holdings. The land, which also includes a 6600 foot beach front, is currently under negotiation for sale that could go as high as $10 million. In addition, the University is the full beneficiary of a 900 acre onion farm in Mansfield, Ohio...