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...WORLD: a weekly tabloid newsmagazine that will begin publishing Sept. 7. Bank rolled by Willard W. Garvey, a Kansas builder, and edited by former Newsweek Associate Editor and Author (Lament for a Genereation) Ralph de Toledano. World's, will probably be as conservative as De Toledano...
Focus on America (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). The story of William Jackson Palmer, the onetime Quaker who led the Pennsylvania 15th Cavalry in the Civil War, became a railroad builder and founded Colorado Springs and Colorado College...
...been set aside for home shelters. But by last week, the Berlin crisis and the Kennedy address combined to make more Americans than ever consider building their own. Day after the President spoke, civil defense offices across the country were flooded with demands for shelter information. In Denver, Home Builder Jack Hoerner quickly sold three new houses containing built-in shelters. A Virginia realtor put ads in Washington newspapers plugging "life and peace of mind outside the Washington target area" at Bull Run. In Chicago, Leo Hoegh, Eisenhower's civil defense director and now executive vice president of Chicago...
Between pressure from Congressmen and admonitions from the Small Business Administration not to forget the little fellow, contracts have been given to firms that were either incompetent or underfinanced. At the Offutt Air Base launching site near Omaha, the construction contract was awarded to a builder who in one Pentagonian's words "didn't even own a wheelbarrow." His frantic efforts to subcontract the entire job produced such confusion and delay that the Air Force ruled that henceforth a contractor must be able to do at least 20% of the work with his own organization...
...Year's resolution: to make his company a $100 million enterprise within the next five years. Even in Phoenix, whose postwar building boom has been among the nation's liveliest, the resolution was somewhat audacious. But such audacity has made David Murdock, at 38, the biggest builder in Arizona...