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Jack the Giant Builder...
...trick is to discover a need, then find a way to fill it. Don Over, 37, saw a need for a trade journal that would tell big builders what major construction jobs were up for bidding: he took over a failing Honolulu magazine and printing press, built up a circulation in 60 countries for his International Construction Reporter (cost: $50 per year). Merlyn Mickelson decided that the computer companies would need a lot of handmade magnetic memory cores, started turning them out in his basement workshop; that eventually grew into Fabri-Tek Inc., in which his stockholdings are now worth...
...problem is that even experts disagree on the reasons for slides. Some Castellamare homeowners blame their losses on the builder of the apartment complex, who cut deeply into the hill face to anchor his foundations halfway up. Says one dispossessed resident: "Even a child building sand castles on the beach knows that if the boy next to him cuts away the base of his sand pile, the castle is going to collapse." On the other hand, the contractor's site was checked by geologists before the city issued him a building permit...
...Diego, Builder William S Chamness, finding only one buyer for his tract of $31,000 homes, rented all but three of the remaining 67- for barely enough to cover his mortgage in terest and taxes. In Detroit, eager home buyers last week snapped up new houses faster than contractors could complete them, and builders were sold out three months ahead of production. In Phoe nix, where a four-year building spree has produced a 20% vacancy rate in apartments, economists are predicting that it will take two years to absorb the oversupply. Yet in Cleveland, realty men talk happily...
...feelings, novel purposes, talents and individuality. Let your brow touch the sky. Force others to look up." The aims of education: "Developing the highest and best in one. It puts zest and life into existence. It gives purpose and ambition." The evils of cynicism: "Which will you be - a builder or a destroyer? A constructor or a smasher of ideas? A blessing to the world or a curse upon it? It all rests with...