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...city will use the $10 million funding package, which includes $4.4 million in loans from local banks and more than $5 million from a state grant and from the city, to acquire a 100-acre tract on the banks of the Merrimack River...
Hoffman, who bought the ten-acre tract for $100,000, has divided 4.3 acres into 27 million minuscule lots, each a mere 1 sq. in., and is selling them (along with deeds suitable for framing, of course) for $8 apiece. He calls his opponents "hypocritical." Says the Chicken Ranch's new proprietor: "They could have dealt with the place when it was a whorehouse. Now I'm immoral for building a museum...
...Program Chief Stoddard charges that the onslaught of protest against Amerika before the show is even finished is an attempt at "precensorship of ideas." The movie, he insists, is not an anti-Soviet tract but a rumination on what it means to be American: "I think it can make people ask some questions about their behavior as citizens. It might even make them think about the responsibility part of freedom." Wrye, who describes himself as a Kennedy Democrat, says he "wasn't remotely interested in doing something anti-Soviet" and charges that opponents of the movie have a double standard...
...Valley fringe-toed lizard, an endangered species that inhabits the area. After a series of studies concluded that the reptile could survive if a 13,000-acre preserve were established nearby, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asked TNC to help raise the $25 million needed to purchase the tract. Within four years, the organization had rounded up the entire amount. The environmentalists were satisfied, and the developers proceeded with their plans...
...WERE IN MY Plymouth, on the expressway, passing a red weedfield that was going to be subdivided into a housing tract, when Junior asked to be let out. I pulled onto the berm and stopped. A bad wind was throwing paper and Dixie cups around...