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...postwar housing boom, Builder William Jaird Levitt's 17,000-house Levittowns-on Long Island and in Pennsylvania-came to symbolize an era of mass-produced, look-alike homes. Though they made Levitt & Sons the nation's largest home builders, the Levittowns were sneered at by esthetes, spoofed by cartoonists, massively aped by other builders. His old image lingers on, but Levitt, now 60, has stayed at the top of the $25 billion industry by changing his whole approach to housing...
Cheaper in Clusters. Instead of monolithic developments, Levitt today has eleven neighborhood-size communities of varied styles and prices ($16,000 to $33,000) rising from Long Island to Cape Kennedy-plus operations in Puerto Rico and France. Last month he broke ground for subdivisions near Baltimore and Chicago, the latter his first venture in the Midwest. Earlier this year, he started the first of a contemplated chain of ten home-furnishing stores called Levittmark, Inc., at his Willingboro, N.J., development, 15 miles from Philadelphia. Two weeks ago at Willingboro, he opened his first colony of town houses-today...
Through such activities, Levitt's sales climbed to an estimated $94 million in the company's latest fiscal year and profits rose to an estimated $3,900,000. Levitt figures that his firm has built 75,000 houses worth $1.1 billion, including 4,300 last year. This year he expects to build another 5,200. "The job gets easier as we get larger," says Levitt. "There are no brains in this business. Once the management problem is solved, you can do almost anything...
This year, Penn returns with only three wrestlers from that squad: captain Mike Schiffman, Dick Levitt, and Joe Geeb. All three of them lost against Harvard last year...
...Golden Knights jumped to a 1-0 lead on Jack Levitt's goal after 7 minutes of the first period, but Harvard came right back with three goals...