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...toward an ultimate 100,000. So far, the place has attracted only two plants and 1,200 inhabitants; lack of sales halted home building two years ago at the 12,000-acre site 25 miles northeast of Sac ramento, Calif. Now "For Sale" signs dot Sunset's vacant lots-also some of its occupied homes spotted here and there amid the expanse of thistles...
Reagan himself indicated that he would not consider the No. 2 spot-at least while No. 1 remained vacant and alluring. He chided the Johnson Administration for failing to intensify the war and, for Christmas delivery, taped a television interview for the troops, in which he urged the country to sacrifice a measure of affluence as a visible sign of its support for their efforts. At the same time, a San Francisco Reagan backer, Businessman Leland Kaiser, reported after a visit to New Hampshire that "there is a genuine Reagan groundswell" in that state, and that, despite the Californian...
Summer in the Park. For a place to stay, some runaways roam the streets looking for vacant houses to break into. "Most of them just sleep in the park; after a few nights of that you will go home with anyone-you don't even look," says Manhattan Hippie Jim Fouratt. "They are exploited by all kinds of people," says Fouratt, "and what's going to happen when winter comes and they can't sleep in the park?" Not that sleeping in the park is any too healthy in summer: last week a 15-year-old runaway...
...armor of invaders. Subsequently Romanized, then later buried for centuries beneath the foundations of what became the port of Marseille, the fortifications were unearthed this summer when contractors began excavations for three high-rise commercial buildings, a cultural center and a 2,000-car underground garage on vacant land behind the city's bourse (stock exchange). Almost immediately, the ramparts became the objective of a new civil conflict that made up in Gallic fury what it lacked in Roman firepower...
...mortgage remaining. On the block stood a bar and a large supermarket, which he and his wife operated. There were also a few stores, houses and a gas station, which he rented out. Jackson figured the whole package was worth at least $250,000, and there was some still-vacant land on which he had just decided to build a motel. Things were looking good. In his wildest nightmares, Jackson could not have guessed what luck, lawyers and the law were about...