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...acres of a Bahama isle named Paradise for $14 million and turn it into a play ground hardly anyone could afford. He built a 52-room hotel (rates: up to $135 a day), nightclub, golf course (pro: Gary Player), and tennis courts (pro: Pancho Gonzales), but, says his broker, "You just can't pay for Gonzales and Player with 52 guests." So now Paradise is for sale somewhere this side of $32 million...
...complex-including a ten-story curved glass building, the first of two similar structures-Murdock has already installed a bank, a savings and loan company, an insurance agency, a title company and a stock broker, all of which have access to a Univac 1107 computer that will process their accounts. Murdock also hopes to have a finance company, a mortgage banking firm, a factoring company and other financial services in the center, so that a typical "shopper" theoretically would be able to settle all his financial affairs on a single trip...
...California and in New York, as well as in most other states, politicians have set up residency-requirement laws for a license to practice as an accountant, doctor, lawyer, insurance or security salesman, real estate or insurance broker...
...code on ice is simpler. In sum it says: no ice. Beyond the printed price of the ticket, $1.50 is the legal maximum broker's fee. The code requires all brokers to make available to the league all records of sales, and brokers caught taking ice will lose their future ticket allocations. Of course, if all those fat-cat buyers from the plains insist on waving $50 bills at ticket sellers, no one is likely to tattle on them, and some violations of the code can be expected. But if a cold-eyed broker tries to shake down...
Persuasion Trouble. Fellman considers himself a kind of marriage broker. "You have to be a diplomat, banker, mother and pacifist," he says. He has paired Aldon nylon carpets with a Chrysler Corp. M-60 tank (to demonstrate durability). Eastern 727 Whisper-jets and Du Pont fabrics, Muriel cigars and mink coats-and Carol Channing and her boat and bounty. Fellman insists that finding a theme to carry a tie-in is only part of his problem. The real trouble comes in persuading a brace of sponsors to accept an idea, and figuring out how much each should pay for sharing...