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...days of last summer, International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., America's biggest conglomerate, surprised investors by agreeing to sell a clutch of household names that it had acquired in recent years. Among them were home builders Levitt & Sons, Avis Inc. and Hamilton Life Insurance. To ITT insiders, however, the decision was no surprise. Chairman Harold Geneen chose to sell because the alternative was a costly antitrust battle with the Justice Department that would have tied up his company in courts for years, and might still have ended in divestiture...
...construction has doubled in the past five years, and this year will account for 80,000 new houses. Some large builders like National Homes and Stirling Homex turn out modular homes that are put together like building blocks on the development sites. The nation's biggest builder, ITT Levitt, operates one of the most modern of these plants in Battle Creek, Mich., turning out one complete house every hour. The modules are hauled to the building sites, where cranes hoist them into place on prepared foundations and workers nail and bolt them together in 20 minutes. Cost...
Daniel Berrigan wrote the play almost entirely from the court transcripts of the trial, and (with a re-write job by Saul Levitt) Michael Butler's new production is very simply a competent condensation of the events of the trial of those nine Catholic radicals who raided the draft board of small-town Catonsville, Maryland and used home-made napalm to destroy 378 folders from the 1-A file...
...South Viet Nam and Cambodia, Willwerth is hardly a stranger to violence. He saw the assault on Attica as "a classic tragedy. Those of us waiting outside finally realized that it would end only with the counting of the dead." Willwerth was joined by Mary Cronin and Leonard Levitt, who helped reconstruct what had happened behind the walls and how the towns people of Attica viewed the conflict. Levitt, an experienced police reporter, obtained a private interview with Corrections Commissioner Russell Oswald. Roger Williams, as signed to analyze the political impact of Attica, obtained a special interview with Governor Nelson...
...that we've always been the humanists, the internationalists. We are the ones with faith in the world, and we are always the last to lose our illusions. That is what happened in Germany." Sam Shoshan, a leading member of the J.D.L. executive board, told TIME Correspondent Leonard Levitt: "We want to encourage the belief that fascism is coming to America and that the Jew is not safe here. If there is just a slight fear in some Jews, we play upon...