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Dawn Bailey Boynton Beach, Fla...
Granville says that he reached the decision to send out the sell order last Tuesday afternoon. Sitting in his posh, stuccoed office in Holly Hill, Fla., he watched the Dow Jones briefly hit 1013.13 before closing the day at 1004.69, a four-year high. In his Jan. 3 newsletter, he had predicted that the market could easily go up another 50 points from its level of 963.99, but looking afresh at the indicators he follows, Granville decided that the top of this bull market had been reached. Says he: "It involved no decisions on my part. I was just following...
Down in St. Petersburg, Fla., where sun-seeking retirees are as plentiful as six-packs of Gatorade, Eckerd College has quite another capital idea. Eckerd, founded in 1958, has only 1,120 undergraduates and relies on a smallish $8 million endowment. But among its assets are 267 palmy, balmy acres of campus right on beautiful Boca Ciega Bay. Eckerd's idea: build houses on some of its land and sell or rent them to retirees. The college wants to put up 500 condominiums and a 270-unit high-rise-complete with nearby shopping center, conference hall, nursing facility...
...wistful popular songs (It's So Peaceful in the Country, I'll Be Around, While We're Young) and unfashionably melodic orchestral and chamber works, and whose 1972 book, American Popular Song, showed him to be a gifted writer as well; of lung cancer; in Gainesville, Fla...
...Ryder decided to start up another firm to rival his own. Using $5 million of his own money and a fleet of trucks assembled on credit from Ford, Chrysler and Fruehauf, he launched Jartran (an acronym for James A. Ryder Transportation) in Coral Gables, Fla., under the noses of his former colleagues...