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...former Levitt operation, now renamed ITT Community Development Corp., is the builder of Palm Coast, a planned community on Florida's east coast that is optimistically scheduled to have a population of 750,000 by 1984. Justice Department officials contend that the transfer was proper because ITT subsidiaries had put together the land and arranged financing for the project. It was only after Levitt & Sons was bought by ITT in 1967, they say, that Palm Coast became a Levitt operation. Even so, the disclosure that ITT still owns the project means that the complex divestiture agreement it reached with...
Last summer Vy began buying or starting private enterprises for the army. He wound up with five: the Bank of Industry and Commerce (BIC); Vicco, a builder of bridges and roads; Vi-navatco, a transportation firm; Icico, an insurer; and Foproco, a food processing and canning company. Vy detached from war duties 155 army officers who had business experience to operate these enterprises...
...member of the party's Central Committee. Huang participated in the Long March and rose to major general during the war against the Nationalists. Arthur Watson, 52, has little diplomatic experience. Until his appointment to the Paris embassy in 1970, Watson, a son of the builder of International Business Machines, was chairman of the company's overseas operations. That background should come in handy on trade problems. To help resolve other matters, the State Department plans either to station one or two of its China experts in Paris or to fly them over before each ambassadorial session...
...years, Nigel John Davies has been a builder's laborer, a bodyguard, a fairgrounds boxer, an assistant at a beauty parlor, a bet taker at a London bookmaking shop, a salesman of nudie films, a shorthand typist, a paint stripper, a bric-a-brac salesman at the Chelsea antique market, and an interior decorator. He has also been unemployed. But all that was before he met a pencil-thin 15-year-old named Lesley Hornby and said: "You're like a twig. I'll call you Twiggy...
Know thyself, said the ancients; man cannot know himself, say the moderns. He is the enigma of enigmas, a caveman turned philosopher, an innocent ensnared in sensuality, a master builder of civilizations who wrecks them like a frustrated child...