Word: vistas
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...Buena Vista, their 13-acre orchard in the lush, apple-growing Russian River country 60 miles north of San Francisco, Attorney Jerry Abbott, 36, and Michael Martin, 35, a social worker, are leasing trees for between $25 and $150 a year, according to size. Renters of the smaller trees are guaranteed a yield of two boxes of prized Gravenstein apples, while those who reserve the big, older trees will be able to pick as much as a ton of apples...
...1960s, dropped out for awhile, and worked on Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. He still prizes a picture of himself shaking hands with Kennedy, and sometimes he gets depressed when he thinks of how it all ended. Eventually he went back to college, and after graduating he joined VISTA. That's where he met my sister, Barb. They got married just three weeks after they first laid eyes on each other...
...Henry James?) once compared the human mind to a furnished room. If either of those two men were alive today they undoubtedly would have added the presence of an expensive decorator. With that addendum firmly in mind (as well as in the room), what changes in decor and in vista do we notice with the passage of 25 years...
...duty, he claimed, for private, selfish reasons. He took issue with conditional amnesty as embodied, for example, in a bill proposed by Republican Senator Robert Taft that would grant amnesty to draft evaders who agree to serve two years in either the armed forces or a civilian service like VISTA. "Such a practice would equate military service with penal servitude," said Benade, "and this is contrary to the history and tradition of our country, which holds military service to be a citizen's duty and privilege...
...maintain established spatial qualities in this most important corner of the Yard, they have tried to design an inconspicuous building which will have a most conspicuous range of environmental effects. The visual closure which reinforces one's sense of security within the Yard is gone. A vast new vista will be opened across the new rooftop. When the Pusey Library's foundations were excavated, the rectangular spatial envelope of the Yard was destroyed--possibly not forever, but probably for a long time...