Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin with, private entrepreneurs and even large companies are wary of financing them. Reston, Virginia, is a case in point. Between 1962 and 1964 Robert Simon, an architect, made unsuccessful attempts to borrow money for Reston from eighty different sources, including banks, insurance companies, and large corporations. Finally, just five days before the deadline set by Simon's contractors, Gulf Oil made a fifteen million dollar commitment. The price: first mortgage on all of Simon's land, an option to buy stock in Reston, and the only gas station in town...
SPAIN, A HISTORY IN ART by Bradley Smith. 296 pages. Simon & Schuster. $30. An explosion of color that richly and often wittily tells the complicated story of Spain's long journey from obscurity (TIME, Jan. 21). The somber Iberian chord is struck again and again-in El Greco's haunted saints and cities, Goya's grim disasters of war, processions of penitents flogging themselves and one another. Appropriately, the final plate is Picasso's brush drawing of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza...
Good Humor Man. Mahoney, who was personally recruited by Simon for the chief executive's chair, seems effervescent enough for the task. A New York City native who now occupies a Park Avenue apartment scarcely a block from the old East Side neighborhood in which he was born, Mahoney began his business career as a mailroom clerk in the advertising agency of Ruthrauff & Ryan. While working at the job, he commuted to Philadelphia's Wharton School of Finance, ultimately earned both a business-school degree and an account executive's office at Ruthrauff & Ryan...
Avoiding Interlock. The main reason for Norton Simon's other move-his own disestablishment from Wheeling
...SCANDINAVIANS by Donald S. Connery. 590 pages. Simon & Schuster...