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Land-Vest, Ic. paid the University $620,000 in March 1973, for the tract of shorefront property in Chilmark. The company has already received $1.6 million from the sale of 33 of 49 house lots and it could gross as much as $2.4 million if prices hold...
Meantime, the Environmental Defense Fund, a public interest group of scientists and lawyers, was approaching the problem from a different angle. A research team compared statistics on the mortality rate of cancers of the urinary organs and gastrointestinal tract in 64 Louisiana parishes (counties). The study showed a "significant relationship" between the use of drinking water from the Mississippi and cancer deaths. The report also noted that dangerous chemicals had been identified in municipal drinking-water supplies in West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Nebraska and Washington...
...version, and he just goes on and on, getting more bellicosely bombastic as he goes along. It still sounds stirring, as an old man's last call to battle should, but it sounds more than a little ludicrous, too. It's like a parody out of some '30s pacifist tract, some embarrassingly guileless Johnny Got His Gun. But Ives was entirely serious, and he stayed that...
...Harry S. Truman Library (library and museum, that is) occupies a single large and dignified U-shaped building on a beautifully landscaped tract of 14 acres in Independence, Missouri--Truman's hometown. Independence was a boom town in the first half of the 19th century, one of the major outfitting centers for wagon trains heading west. By the turn of the century, it had become an agricultural and livestock center. Today, although Independence is steadily being pulled into the vortex of metropolitan Kansas City, its center remains a prosperous, pleasant county seat...
...Presidential Library is on the Hoover Historic Site in West Branch, Iowa, where Herbert Hoover was born in 1874, one of three children of the village blacksmith. This eastern part of Iowa is lovely, rolling, fertile farm country, and the historic site itself is a beautifully maintained 180 acre tract with open land, trees, and a meandering stream. The gravesites of Herbert Hoover and his wife, simple granite monuments, are on a wooded knoll. The village of West Branch, with a population of only 1300, seems to merge into the park-like site...