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...persistent myths about actors is that they are egomaniacs. Not so. They're insecure souls who thirst for the love and reassurance of audiences who applaud with whatever wild abandon the human palm will permit...
Some of the newer walled communities are installing remarkably sophisticated security systems. The Mission Hills condominium in the desert near Palm Springs is being rigged with electronic Westinghouse units that monitor for fires, burglaries or equipment failures. Signals are fed to a local computer center that alerts firemen, police or maintenance men and, in addition, activates a net of ultrasensitive microphones installed inside each house, allowing a dispatcher to listen in while help is on the way. Residents are enthusiastic. "I feel so good when I know that I'm entering a house that is untouched," says a Mission...
Died. Louis Perini, 68, baseball club owner who initiated the first major-league franchise shift in 50 years by moving his Boston Braves to Milwaukee in 1953; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A construction and real estate executive who became a Braves owner in 1943, Perini gave a sense of insecurity to sports fans everywhere when he led his money-losing team from their home of 77 years to pastures he hoped would be more profitable. (They were not.) Boston papers dubbed him the "Benedict Arnold of Baseball," but his strategy was subsequently emulated by financially pressed teams in both...
Died. Gil Hodges, 47, New York Mets manager; of a heart attack; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Fresh from the Marines, Hodges rejoined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and in the next 17 seasons established a reputation for graceful fielding at first base and timely long-ball hitting. He set a National League record for grand-slam home runs (14) that still stands. After managing the Washington Senators for five years, he returned to New York to take over the hapless, tenth-place Mets. The next season Hodges led his team to the 1969 pennant and an upset World Series...
...former Levitt operation, now renamed ITT Community Development Corp., is the builder of Palm Coast, a planned community on Florida's east coast that is optimistically scheduled to have a population of 750,000 by 1984. Justice Department officials contend that the transfer was proper because ITT subsidiaries had put together the land and arranged financing for the project. It was only after Levitt & Sons was bought by ITT in 1967, they say, that Palm Coast became a Levitt operation. Even so, the disclosure that ITT still owns the project means that the complex divestiture agreement it reached with...