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...government is preparing a bold experiment for La Laguna: it hopes to resettle some 3,000 families in the verdant coastal areas near the Guatemalan border...
Last week little Mali established its sovereignty over 26 verdant acres of New York's Westchester County, near another historic spot of no economic significance: Washington Irving's Sleepy Hollow. To create a home that was never like home for its U.N. staff, Mali paid $300,000 for two mansions overlooking the Hudson at Tarrytown: Linden Court, with 19 bedrooms and ten baths, and Uplands, which has only seven bedrooms and six baths. Both were sold by the Biddle clan...
Members of the upper crust, of course, have always had their country cottages for getting out of town when the weather was hard to take. The Emperor Tiberius, for one. used to beat the Roman heat on the cliffs of Capri, where some of the house guests at his verdant Villa Jovis were said to have disappeared into the sea below. Perhaps the most famed second house of all is the exquisite Petit Trianon, begun by Louis XV for his mistress. Madame de Pompadour, and elaborated by Louis XVI's wife, Marie Antoinette. From the punkah-hung summer bungalows...
...Cyclades owe their new verdant look to a fleet of water-carrying Dracones -huge, sausage-shaped bags of rubber-covered nylon, which are towed over to the islands daily from the Greek mainland. The Dracone-which gets its name from the Greek word for serpent-was conceived during the 1956 Suez crisis by British Engineer William Rede Hawthorne, 49. Seeking a quick way to build up Western Europe's oil-hauling capacity, Hawthorne began experimenting in a wave tank with sausage skins filled with alcohol. But soon there was a glut of oil tankers-and European refineries...
...unpleasantness arose because Hughdee signed a contract to sell Merrywood, for about $750,000, to a syndicate that wants to build three 17-story apartment buildings on the property-which, with its environs, has been described by a local newspaper as a place of "verdant grandeur." The prospect of hundreds of apartment dwellers despoiling McLean has aroused residents of the area to an outburst of verdant vituperation...