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While nationwide debate boils on over the issue of medical care for the aged, California Builder Ross Cortese, 45, is doing well with his own solution to the problem. At Rossmoor Leisure World, a $150 million cooperative-apartment development that Cortese is building 25 miles south of Los Angeles, the cost of medical care for residents will be included in the price of each apartment...
Although best known as half-owner of the New York Yankees, a laconic onetime carpenter named Delbert Eugene Webb, 62, has made most of his millions as a builder of shopping plazas and housing projects, hotels and office skyscrapers from Tampa to San Francisco. Last week Phoenix-based Del Webb took on a job that should dwarf all his others...
...World. Josephine Paul was born in Iowa and raised in Brooklyn, the daughter of a well-heeled builder and real estate investor. Even as a young woman, she showed sharp business sense, and with her sister, she ran a successful greeting card company. After her marriage to Charles Ulrick Bay, a multimillionaire stockbroker and investor, she took an active interest in his business affairs. In 1946, Bay was named Ambassador to Norway (he was the son of Norwegian immigrants), and for the next seven years the Bays hobnobbed with world celebrities in and out of Oslo...
...safest rule for the adult buyer is to avoid any book bearing the endorsement of any educational book or library advisory service. One such-The Man Who Walked Around the World, by Benjamin Elkin (Childrens Press; $2.50)-bears the menacing label, "A Reading Laboratory Book," and offers "skill-builder words beyond the first thousand words for children's reading." Among the skill-builders are lad, lit, below, flew and top, which provoke wonder as to what the first thousand words could be and who counted them...
...trouble, of course, is not with science, but only with the use we make of science. But I am confident it is your deep hope, as it is ours, that the scientist as human will presently outstrip the scientist who is simply the builder of a more efficient tool," he said...