Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The master plan was drawn by Architect William L. Pereira, who did the overall design for the University of California's Santa Barbara branch. Instead of developing the Irvine ranch simply as a suburb of sprawling Los Angeles, Pereira has planned an independent, self-supporting city. The first community...
Three miles east of the shopping area will be the heart of the new development, the 1,000-acre university section where the University of California is building a new branch. The first buildings will be ready to receive the students in 1964; when completed in 1980, the entire complex...
The ad first ran in the daily paper of Porto Velho, a steamy jungle city 2,000 miles in from the sea up the Rio Madeira tributary of the Amazon river. Last week papers all over Brazil were still delightedly reprinting it.
"Open a bar in your house. Be your only customer. Give your wife 1,440 cruzeiros [$7.57] to buy a case of 24 bottles of caninha Garcas [raw-sugar-cane alcohol]. Buy a bottle a day at 5 cr. (3?) a shot from your wife. If you live another ten...
Payoff on Gamble. The ad was no joke to its author, James Bryan Choate, 35, a lanky Texan, or to the Brazilian territory of Rondonia (pop. 65,000) where he lives. For Choate, it began the payoff of a $125,000 gamble to tame 500,000 acres of jungle. To...