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...Finder's Keepers...
...torpedo finder. Able to swim 2,000 ft. beneath the surface, it was built for the U.S. Navy by Vitro Laboratories, can be adapted for commercial use. The Solaris is an eerie, Jules Verne monster that probes the ocean floor with four 500-watt floodlights and a television eye. When it spots a lost torpedo or other wanted object, a giant crab's claw snaps out, hoists the catch back to the surface...
...Fact Finder. In Apeldoorn. The Netherlands, six months after he was appointed to the newly created job of "coordinating director for special duties"' of city services, K. H. Tusenius handed in his resignation with the announcement: "I am superfluous...
...enhanced by a tight-money situation: finding lenders to put up money on propositions that they might ordinarily turn down. Clark, 69, is so good at his job that in half a century he figures he has found close to $1 billion for borrowers. And last week Money Finder Clark was dickering on the biggest deal of his career: arranging the financing for two 90,000-ton. super-economy transatlantic ocean liners. If the German government will give a guarantee for 70% of the costs of the ships, a plan that German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard intends to discuss...
Clark is a top money finder because he knows which insurance companies, savings banks, pension funds, or other sources have funds to loan, how much interest they want, and how to tailor each loan application to appeal to the loan-fund manager's personal preferences in collateral. For his services in introducing lender and borrower, Clark collects 1% of the gross proceeds of each loan. Sometimes, when an extraordinarily difficult piece of work is involved, he may raise his fee to 2% or more (the maximum: 5% of the amount of the loan). As a money finder...