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...supreme self-confidence-his competitors call it arrogance-is solidly based on the fact that he is the most potent single modernizing influence in a largely antiquated industry. Last week he added another cubit to his self-esteem and his builder's stature; in seven days, his salesmen sold another 350 houses in his Levittown "store" (where lumber, piping and other materials used in each house are on display). Said Bill Levitt: "I told them I'd give them an extra week off this summer if they did it. I don't say these things unless...
...Republic National Bank of Dallas, largest bank in the Southwest, added another cubit to its business stature last week. It announced details of its plans to build the Southwest's biggest office building for its new quarters (see cut). The 600-ft., slabsided structure will look like Manhattan's United Nations buildings-and with reason. Harrison and Abramovitz, chief U.N. architectural firm, supervised the design. Completely air-conditioned, the new bank will have a basement drive-in banking service for motorists, a basement garage big enough to handle 1,200 cars a day. It will be finished...
Genial Swiss Theologian Karl Earth added a cubit or two to his international stature by denouncing Hitler in 1933, when most good Christians were waiting to see how events would turn out. But Earth's postwar casualness about Communism's threat to Christianity has puzzled many a Protestant. In this week's Christian Century, the Rev. Hendrik Hauge, chaplain to Norway's famed Bishop Berggrav, attacks Earth's present political position...
...Length of biblical (and British) cubit: 18 inches. David's Goliath towered six cubits and a span...
...What can be done?" the Commission asked-and confessed that its conclusions were not startling. Its plan was full of hope that the press might still add a cubit to its stature...