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...drive chairman, Baltimore Builder Joseph Meyerhoff, 61. Born in Russia, Meyerhoff went to the University of Maryland Law School, set up shop as a house builder in 1920. During the Depression, he eked out a living as a small-scale real estate operator. Now he runs the Joseph Meyerhoff Corp., a firm that specializes in "community development" projects, averages nearly 600 housing units a year, has helped build Baltimore's four largest shopping centers...
...construction: he is president of the city's Associated Jewish Charities (which last year raised $3,100,000 for worthy causes in both Baltimore and Israel), presides over the State Planning Commission. Although he builds no houses in Israel, Meyerhoff is also president of the Palestine Economic Corp., which has raised $11 million for private investment in Israeli industry since 1948. "In my family," he says, "we took for granted that being a Jew and being interested in what was first Palestine and is now Israel were one and the same thing...
...take a degree at Mississippi State College, later fought with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War (his nom de guerre: Israel Altman), hired out as a guard at the Soviet pavilion during the 1939 New York World's Fair, worked for the Soviet Amtorg Trading Corp. in 1942. Around the time of the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg spy trial in 1951, the Cohens ducked from sight. The FBI was not looking for them then but for reasons unrevealed, began taking an interest in them during the Rudolf Ivanovich Abel spy case in 1957. When Colonel Abel was convicted...
...bill, not yet passed, that called for a heavy fine and imprisonment on any mine operator who closed down without his permission. To mine owners, this looked like the first step toward nationalization and brought an immediate outcry. Major General Sir Edward L. Spears, chairman of Ashanti Goldfields Corp., Ltd., one of Ghana's prosperous mines, and also chairman of Bibiani ( 1927 ) Ltd., one of the marginal mines, warned Nkrumah that if he does not make it clear that he was not trying "to seize the mines without adequate compensation, no more outside capital will come into Ghana...
Computer Translator. A machine that can take the figurings of a computer on magnetic tape, translate them into words, and print them on microfilm at the rate of two pages a second, faster than any competitor's model was announced by Eastman Kodak's Recordak Corp. subsidiary. It will, says the company, eliminate volumes of paper records and make computer findings instantly available. Price...