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Because financing for an apartment house is arranged many months in advance of the building's completion, purchasers of cooperative apartments enjoy a temporary advantage over home buyers during a period of rising interest rates.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 21 -- Wheatley Stable's Progressing, a failure in four previous stakes this year, today won the $117,320 Pimlico Futurity to give his trainer, James (Sunny Jim) Fitzsimmons, his first victory in the race in nineteen years.
The number of old dwellings in Greenwich Village being renovated has increased markedly in the last several months.
The home developer seeking to give prospective buyers a selection of models to suit most tastes would do well to display three basic styles -- a split ranch, a contemporary Colonial, and a two-story split-level.
1959Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer[†]
Francis McAvennie is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent two spells playing for each of St Mirren, West Ham United and Celtic. With Celtic, he won the Scottish Premier Division in 1987–88 and the Scottish Cup in 1988. He was capped five times at senior level for Scotland during the 1980s, scoring one goal.
1959Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist[†]
Fabio Enrique Parra Pinto is a retired Colombian road racing cyclist. Parra was successful as an amateur in Colombia, winning the Novatos classification for new riders or riders riding their first edition of the race, and finishing 14th in the 1979 Vuelta a Colombia and then the General classification in the 1981 Vuelta a Colombia. He also competed in the individual road race event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]