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Much of Hawaii's richest acreage has for decades belonged to a few families and trusts, and most homes and office buildings are built on leaseholds. Quinn came up with a plan that he called the "Second Mahele,"*an imaginative land-reform scheme (denounced by his oppo. nents as "fanciful") that 'would permit Hawaiians to buy, "for as little as $50 an acre," a total of 144,480 state-owned acres on four of the islands. "Hoax!" cried the Democrats, and even many a top Republican admitted that much of this land was either worthless or else...
...Richest Opportunity. At the formal opening of the exhibition that evening. Khrushchev conceded in his speech to some 4,000 official guests that he had felt "a certain envy" in looking at the displays. But, he went on, the U.S.S.R. would "surpass the U.S., not only in total volume of production but also in per capita production." Russians, he said, "see the American exhibition as an exhibition of our own achievements in the near future." The day is not far off "when our country will overtake our American partner in peaceful economic competition and will then, at some station, come...
...propaganda that the exhibition was not typical of U.S. life. Expecting that his speech' would reach millions of Russians (it was printed in both Pravda and Izvestia), Nixon had thrown away the State Department's proposed drafts and written his own text to take advantage of the richest propaganda opportunity the Soviet government had ever handed a U.S. official...
Bribes & Calls. Richest ground for spying is the U.S. oil industry, where geological maps command a king's ransom. The Harvard surveyors found that one oilman was paying geologists from five competing companies $500 each a month to feed him undercover information. At another company, a switchboard operator intercepted long-distance calls between executives, heard when and where the company planned to buy leases, sold the tips to an outside broker, who grabbed up the leases. In Casper, Wyo., an oil executive quit without turning in his office keys, later was caught fingering through secret maps in another executive...
...situation was too much for the jangled nerves of Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "We are not bankrupt," said he to the Senate, "but we do look as if we are determined to end up the richest, fattest, most smug and complacent people who ever failed to meet the test of survival...