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...LEASES to federal land, on the seaward side of the submerged lands awarded the states by Congress last year, are finally being sold to private oil companies. The Government has leased 97 tracts (total: about 300,000 acres) ten miles or more off the Louisiana coast to 25 private operators for $130 million. Highest bid: $6,100,-000 by San Antonio's Forest Oil Co. for a promising 5,000-acre tract near Timbalier Island...
...faraway days when he did not like Reds, French Existentialist Author Jean-Paul Sartre ground out a middling anti-Communist tract in the form of a play called Dirty Hands. Since then, Sartre has changed camps, is now a faithful member in good standing of a Communist braintrust known as the World Peace Council. Last week Turncoat Sartre cried havoc because Dirty Hands was presented at Vienna's Volkstheater. He threatened to sue to keep the curtain from rising, but the play opened as scheduled, naturally proved to be a smash hit, was climaxed by a 30-minute ovation...
Regulation Start. Well aware that a bad school situation makes a real-estate developer no friends. Builder Oddstad made a radical suggestion: he would make a temporary school out of tract houses, lease the school to the district until the red tape of establishing a regular school could be untangled. Then the school could be reconverted into its component houses and sold. When Architect Victor Abrahamson showed them the plans for Oddstad's project, the local school board quickly gave him the nod. A San Francisco bank lent the money, and Oddstad's construction crews rushed the school...
Died. Raymond M. Eastman, 29, advertising copywriter, author three years ago of a provocative safe-driving tract, Ten Seconds to Live; in an automobile crash, when his Jaguar clipped another car while passing and careered into a bridge; in Atlantic, Iowa...
...that 1) they had spent $750,000 for architect's fees instead of the $63,000 they actually paid; 2) Gordon owned land valued at $84,725. although he had only a word-of-mouth agreement to get the land "if the negotiation went through"; 3) the entire tract of land was listed at a value of $505,500, although they had actually paid only...