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...Boston doctor paid $90,000 not long ago for a 300-acre tract in northeastern Vermont that included a picturesque 90-acre pond. Too late he found out that the pond is a town water source; every summer it is drained right down to its muddy bottom, and the state forbids swimming or boating at any time. The doctor is trying to unload the land. Another example: Ashley T. Murphy, a California builder, got design approval for a $9,000,000 apartment complex in Oceanside...
Much of this ground has been fought over before. Yet Kind and Usual Punishment is a persuasive tract with a murderous eye alike for delusive penal rhetoric and abusive practice. Eugene V. Debs once stated this ideal: "While there is a soul in prison, I am not free." Jessica Mitford has the sublime un reasonableness to treat that as an imperative...
...examination showed that she had broken her right forearm; the discovery of spots in her left lung confirmed that she had had tuberculosis; and an examination of her gall bladder disclosed several gallstones. Her digestive tract showed that she had eaten melon shortly before her death; 138 melon seeds were found, all undigested...
Most of the houses are large and well-preserved. Landscape enthusiasts will love 138 Irving St., a stocky house which sits on a slightly elevated tract of land. Richard Zeckhauser, the tenant, has done much of the exterior work which gives the property its impressive appearance...
...Ministry of Economics, and Maria Teresa Horta, a well-known poet who edits the literary supplement of a Lisbon newspaper. The book they put together from their writings-they collaborated through an exchange of views in letters and at weekly lunches and dinners-is no mere feminist tract but a work of literary merit. It is now being translated into several languages and will be published in the U.S. next year by Doubleday. The work was inspired by the still widely read 17th century Letters of a Portuguese Nun, supposedly written to a French officer who had seduced and then...