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There is one cloud on the thatchers' horizon. To meet the increasing demand for thatched roofs, Devonshire Businessman John Fox has devised an imitation and partially assembled thatch. Solid fiber glass, it comes in any color (golden brown/mature thatch and yellow-gold/newly laid thatch are the two preferred varieties). It takes less than a week to put up, is guaranteed birdproof and verminproof, and should last several lifetimes. Scoffs a conventional thatcher: "I suppose if you have not got very good eyesight and stand far enough away it could pass for thatch. But man can't improve...
...slowly deeper with the lapse of light. And the sea always has its magic, especially at night, when the beaches are deserted and the sand runs cool beneath your feet. The waves roll in, sighing at last up the shore. The sky glows faintly overhead and darkens at the horizon. At certain seasons, schools of tiny mad fish called grunion fling themselves on the sand to spawn; they come in shimmering silver waves and are decimated by grunion-hunters who scoop them up into buckets, alive and writhing and unsatisfied...
...mostly by investment counselors as a handy way of attracting investors whose accounts were too small to merit individual attention. T. Rowe Price Associates of Baltimore, an investment counselor, owns the biggest no-load fund, T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund, and two other large ones, Rowe Price New Horizon and Rowe Price New Era. The assets of these three funds account for 26% of the entire no-load industry's assets of $5.8 billion. Recently, some of Wall Street's investment houses have also been setting up no-load funds to offer an additional, inexpensive investment option...
...historic flight. With just a handful of close advisers, the great man stepped into his jet and vanished over the horizon. While he was in the air, wire service bulletins carried the news of his departure, and leaders in the host country busily prepared for his arrival...
...Many buyers surrender the standard 5% to 10% down payment for their lots through the mail without even seeing what they buy. Others overlook restrictive covenants, tax liens and hair-raising warnings in the property reports that large developers must file with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Horizon Corp., the largest subdivider in New Mexico, is supplying future residents of its 150,000-acre Rio communities with neither water nor sewage systems. Southwest Land Corp. is developing Santa California City, N. Mex., without selling new owners the mineral rights to their land; other people, who bought the rights...