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...bill proposes limited access to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. "If you spent money to preserve the land and didn't restrict access, the money would be wasted," Gifford said...
...Federal land use bill sponsored by Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) would help alleviate soaring housing costs and ecological hazards on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, a former Kennedy legislative aid said at Lowell Lecture Hall last night...
...times that debt has proved costly. Until recently, the Soviet Union regarded the country as its own private vegetable patch, vineyard and Tobacco Road. Bulgarians have labored under an ultra-orthodox Communist regime to keep Russian consumers supplied with farm produce, cigarettes and heady red wine. Total economic dependency, combined with brutal political and intellectual repression, assured Bulgaria's status as the most benighted nation in the Soviet bloc...
...wine was always just wine, but the story was like a beautiful gate opening into a lovely vineyard...
...operation, Tonnot lived an obscure life to avoid what French tax collectors call "signs of exterior wealth." He drove a bourgeois Peugeot 504 and kept his bank account low. In the end, however, exterior wealth was his undoing. The widening investigation turned up the fact that he owned a vineyard in the Jura mountains and a villa by the Mediterranean in addition to a $50,000 Lyon apartment (which alone might have been explained away by simple graft). Now, Tonnot, a Lyon University law graduate, faces a ten-year jail sentence and $50,000 fine: "I'm done...