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...placed 14th in a 24-ship convoy, the Coraggio swung free at Port Said. Egyptian Pilot Ibrahim el Shiaty, who speaks good Italian, barked his first orders: "Avanti adagio, venti a diritta" (Slow ahead, 20 degrees rudder to the right). We moved slowly past the statue of Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps with bronze arm outstretched, past the white-colonnaded canal headquarters where the green Egyptian flag flew proudly from the mast, past a pair of Egyptian navy corvettes acquired from the British in better times...
...specializing in city mission work, and Martin England was 36, taking a refresher course after missionary duty in Burma. With $59 between them they took an option on a rundown 440-acre plot beside the highway in as prejudiced a part of Georgia as anyone could find. A Louisville builder donated the rest of the money they needed, and they called the place Koinonia (pronounced coy-no-nee-ah), Greek for fellowship. Now the fellowship farm is fighting for its life...
...admirers often prefer to remember gruff, octogenarian Colonel Ewart Scott Grogan as he was in the old days, when rugged individualism and a respect for white-skinned authority were the stuff of which empires were made. While still an undergraduate at Cambridge, "Grogs" Grogan earned the envy of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes by walking the 4,500-mile length of Africa from Cape Town to Cairo "just for the hell of it." "You have done what has been the ambition of every explorer," Rhodes wrote, "and it makes me the more certain that we shall complete the [Cape toCairo] railway...
CONSTRUCTION of private housing has been slipping in recent months, is now running at the annual rate of 1,100,000 starts, off 200,000 from last year. So far, builders are not too worried; the trend to bigger, more expensive houses has helped maintain a high dollar volume. Nevertheless, the decline has given a big boost to a little-known idea: trade-in housing. Detroit Builder-Broker Gordon Williamson, who used to sell cars in the '20s, says that real-estate dealers are today at the point where auto dealers found themselves 30 years ago; they are going...
...Detroit, where the idea is widespread, Edward Rose & Sons, one of the area's biggest builder-brokers, works this way: when the prospective house buyer cannot finance the deal until his old house is sold, Rose contracts to buy the house at a fair market price, puts it up for sale. If the old house is sold before the new one is ready, Rose simply charges the standard 5% broker's commission. Otherwise he moves the buyer into the new house and takes up his option on the trade-in at the mutually agreed price, less...