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...since his semiretirement from show biz, his business rivals are learning that he really meant what he sang. The latest object of Sinatra's approach: the Del E. Webb Corp., a $340 million-a-year Phoenix-based company that was founded by the late Del Webb, the renowned builder and former part-owner of the New York Yankees, who died in 1974. Late last month Sinatra filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a 14B form, which is the customary prelude to a proxy war. Bracing for the onslaught, the Del Webb Corp. announced that it might postpone...
...woman swept through half a dozen college campuses in Wisconsin last week, taking to the rostrums to advance a seriously embattled cause: nuclear power. The soft-sell evangelists, who go under the name of Campus America, are engineers and scientists employed by Westinghouse Electric Corp., a major builder of atomic plants. All volunteers, they receive only traveling expenses for their proselytizing efforts around the country. Yet in the year or so that the show has been on the road. Campus America has become an increasingly important weapon in the still spreading battle between pro-and anti-nuclear forces...
...reached the bottom of a page. Certainly, Darwin would have ascribed to the Duke of Wellington's statement that "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton," for he considered the English public school, as epitomized in Tom Brown's Schooldays, to be the great builder of the moral...
...market is literally exploding," says Engineer Peter Tobia, whose New Jersey-based Geodesic Structures, Inc. sells prefabricated domes (average price: $12,000) nationally through a network of 40 builder-dealers. Tobia, who says his firm receives 400 written inquiries a week, expects to double the number of dealer outlets this year and sell some 200 units (about $2.2 million worth). Peter Tobia's brother Ronald, who owns a separate company, Building Concepts, Inc., that builds finished dome-iciles in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, anticipates sales of up to 100 domes in its area for a total of some...
Williams, the daughter of a Northamptonshire builder, came to Wilson's attention after she used information gleaned as a typist at Labor Party headquarters to warn the future P.M. that a group of intraparty enemies was trying to oust him from a key committee. Hired by her grateful beneficiary in 1956, the attractive blonde gradually acquired Wilson's unquestioned confidence-and a power over party matters that made her the terror of his "kitchen-cabinet" Labor cronies. It was hardly a secret that among those on her list of less-favored was Haines, 49, practitioner of an abrasive...