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...Rites. Last week there were signs that her neighbors were beginning to understand how badly they had let the side down. When the council threatened to evict the families who refused to pay their rent, all 96 of the defaulters capitulated. "Everyone says the Mohammeds are clean," mused a tenant, "and we all know some whites are dirty." "It would be horrid not to say good morning," blurted her friend...
...move into the inner sanctum of retailing society. As the newest addition to its chain of 14 stores in four states, E. J. Korvette Co. (TIME, March 10) will open an outlet in a Greek-columned building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. The building's previous tenant (whose future Manhattan location is still undecided): W. & J. Sloane Inc., suburbia's favorite purveyors of high-priced home furnishings...
...University of North Carolina's confident Joseph Wayne Grimsley, 25, is one of seven children of a Wilson county tenant farmer. He graduated near the top of his class with a B.A. in international studies. Though softspoken, Grimsley has no doubt of his future: "I say shoot big. I'm aiming for Secretary of State or something in that line." Born in a farmhouse, Grimsley enlisted in the Army after high school, got his taste for diplomacy while serving at the U.S. embassy in Rome. Using the G.I. bill, he became the first of his family to attend...
...eventually plan a huge development of industry, homes, highways and commercial projects. They have already recovered their original investment by taking in additional partners, and have attracted one of the world's largest and most modern coffee-processing plants, operated by J. A. Folger & Co., as their first tenant. Within five years, they figure, the land should be worth between $10,000 and $50,000 an acre...
Murdock likes to become his own tenant. The Guaranty Bank was born when Murdock idly remarked at a cocktail party: "I wish I had a bank in my building." Huddling over a punch bowl, his companions leaped at the idea, joined Murdock in pledging $960,000 toward the founding of the bank-whose stock has jumped from $20 to better than $70 in the past 13 months. The prime tenant in the bigger of Murdock's two downtown buildings will be the Union Title & Trust Co., which was organized by Murdock and his friends in April, overnight became...