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...builder is Paris's Flemish-French Art Dealer Aimé Maeght (pronounced Mag), who had long owned a wooded hilltop a mile from Saint-Paul-de-Vence, on the Cóte d'Azur, a perfect site for a museum. He consulted assorted architects, who suggested amusing and cavalier plans for a subterranean museum or one soaring on stilts, but he eventually chose Sert. For consultants he enlisted artists whose works he sells: Braque, Chagall, Miró and Giacometti...
Since 1958 his O'Day Corp. has been turning out stubby Fiberglas boats for amateur sailors that offend his sensibili ties ("They look like unwashed bath tubs," O'Day admits wryly) but have sold fast enough to make him the world's largest builder of sailboats under...
...news shows from all over the Aegean. Zeus and Hera, who are just folks, watch it so much that they must surely have to keep a six-pack of nectar and a frozen ambrosia dinner close at hand. But in stead of astronauts they see Argonauts -a bearded body builder named Jason (Todd Armstrong) and his adventure-prone shipmates aboard the Argo...
...leaving the ground, in an Apollo simulator built by General Precision's Link Division of Binghamton, N.Y. Link's business is make-believe, and the company has performed it so well that it has moved ahead of competing Curtiss-Wright to become the world's largest builder of simulators that unerringly reproduce the sights, sounds and problems of everything from jets to space capsules...
...neither read nor write-but neither, points out Saudi Arabia's Mohammed ben Laden, could the Prophet Mohammed. The Middle East's biggest builder, hard-driving Ben Laden last week mobilized his construction teams to begin a 600-mile road across the desert and mountains from Mecca to Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh. Since setting up his company in 1938 (he learned construction techniques as an Aramco laborer), Ben Laden, 49, has completed $500 million in projects, including jetports in Jidda and Medina, a handful of palaces, and miles of superhighways. His greatest thrill was building...