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Home Capital starts with a modest nest egg of $2,000,000 put up by Plywood-Champion, Andersen Corp., Armstrong Cork, Kaiser Industries, Masonite and Reynolds Metals. By borrowing as much as twelve times that amount from banks and other sources of capital-much as consumer-and auto-finance concerns do-Home Capital expects to be able to make loans on some 7,000 homes within 18 months. The money will go primarily to buyers of new, one-family homes through mortgage bankers across the U.S. With more capital and borrowing, Home Capital aims at financing 100,000 homes...
...Taoiseach (pronounced Tee-shock), Lynch, a tall, astute administrator with a soft, musical brogue, is expected to carry on where Lemass left off-even to reappointment of most of Lemass' Cabinet. The Cork-born former athlete has his work cut out. The Fianna Fail, which holds only 71 of Parliament's 144 seats, faces two tough by-elections expected in February. If Fianna Fail loses both, Lynch's party could face a general election before next summer...
...more years. Nobody knows for sure who happened onto it first. All at once, half a dozen players started throwing corkscrews, grasping the ball by its laces and rifling it through the air. But it took another 60 years and a horde of exceptional athletes to pull the cork completely out of the bottle...
...STENCH in the ear," wrote Ambrose Bierce, fulminating against noise in the long tradition of sensitive and thinking men. Marcel Proust was so fastidious about noise that he had his study lined with cork. Juvenal bemoaned the all-night cacophony of imperial Rome, observing that "most sick people perish for want of sleep." To Schopenhauer it was clear that "the amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity, and may therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure...
...hard to refute. Mrs. Keyes (rhymes with eyes) is a very nice old lady of 81 who sells all the books she can write. Of the 47 that she has published since 1919, not counting this one, nearly half have been bestsellers. This one is already bobbing, a buoyant cork, on the bestseller lists...