Word: levitts
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...yawns nowhere wider than in France, where 51 years of rent control have helped create a gargantuan housing shortage. Thus it is not surprising that the French have enthusiastically greeted an invasion by Long Island's William J. Levitt, the U.S.'s biggest homebuilder (fiscal 1965 sales: $60 million). More than 60,000 Frenchmen have poured out of Paris to gape at Levitt's recently opened American-style subdivision in suburban Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis...
...kind of blast Elsa would have liked. The theme was Une Nuit sur la Côte d'Azur, in honor of the old girl's favorite playground, and Cannes' Whisky à GoGo discothèque was faithfully reproduced while French-born Decorations Chairwoman Jeanine Levitt looked like an ondine from the Riviera in a sapphire-studded Griffe and a peacock blue...
Fortunately for Keating, New Yorkers are confirmed ticket splitters, as Republican Senator Jacob Javits, the state's best vote getter and a staunch Keating ally, proved in 1962 when he was re-elected by 983,000 votes while Democrat Arthur Levitt, running for comptroller, was re-elected by 791,000-a split of 1,774,000. New York, in fact, makes it impossible to vote a straight ticket by pulling a single lever in a voting booth or marking a single X on a paper ballot to choose all candidates, instead requires that voters indicate each choice separately...
...Upper Levitt. The incredible demand for space has permitted fly-by-night entrepreneurs to debase Europe's reputation for quality craftsmanship. Many new houses and apartments have cracker-thin walls, minimum soundproofing, unpainted interiors. On a recent tour of Europe, 20 top U.S. construction experts were shocked by the high prices and lack of standards. Said Tacoma's Daniel Brown, research director of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association: "There's no comparing quality here with...
Some U.S. builders are beginning to take advantage of this remarkable seller's market. The most famous U.S. builder, William Levitt, has won preliminary approval from the French government to construct a Levittown of 500 houses near Versailles. For a three-bedroom house, he will charge $20,000 to $25,000-which is 25% to 50% more than the price of the same Levitt house...