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...housing family. To rid the prefab of the boxy, cheap look and boring sameness that once plagued it, he has hired top architects to give his houses style, turns out four basic models in 600 different variations ranging from a three-bedroom $7.900 home to a $150,000 custom-built one. Price also has another valuable asset: his brother George, National's president and a hardselling salesman who travels four business days out of five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Getting Ready for the '60s | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...Road. In St. George's, West Indies,'the Anglo-American Funeral Agency offered a free case of whisky with each "de luxe, custom-built casket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...your Sept. 8 article "The Generous Lender," reference is made to a certain controversial figure whose unique banking methods are under investigation by the Italian Parliament. Your untrue statement says: "Not long after [Giambattista] Giuffre's black custom-built Fiat sedan drew up at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Cesta di Copparo, the Passionists had a new monastery, 20 new acres of farm land and an $850,000 Sanctuary to the Blessed Virgin of Peace." Signor Giuffre never visited outhouse at Cesta di Copparo, nor has he ever donated so much as one Italian lira...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...double it for you in a year." Giuffrè always repaid the loans and interest promptly. Catholic charities invested large sums with him. And all the while, Giuffrè gave unstintingly to the church and its works. Not long after Giuffrè's black custom-built Fiat sedan drew up at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Cesta di Copparo, the Passionists had a new monastery, 20 new acres of farm land and an $850,000 Sanctuary to the Blessed Virgin of Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Generous Lender | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...interested in a celestial view of Moscow as it is in a thick, radioactive mantle 600 miles overhead, which overwhelmed the sensory devices of earlier satellites. Explorer IV's extra beef-it is seven pounds heavier than Explorer III-went into instruments custom-built to examine this ionized belt, which may reach all the way to the sun and could well thwart mortal designs on outer space. Within minutes of launch, Explorer IV was wheeling with the other moons, 170 miles up at the lowest, 1,400 miles up at the highest, sending back vital intelligence on this cosmic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Big Shot | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

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