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...Army's agreement with Avco contains no penalty clauses for late delivery, a loophole Wickham called "a contract deficiency." Moreover, the Army waited so long before even considering the possibility of going to a second supplier that, given the two to three years start-up time, it may now be too late...
...process has cost "well over a million dollars so far." Yet a House-Senate conference committee refused to allow the Army to choose a second manufacturer. The apparent reason: members bowed to pressures from New England legislators to keep the jobs dependent on it with the current contractor, Avco Corp.'s Lycoming Division in Stratford, Conn...
...manifest, physically, their traumas and neuroses. Eggar, his star warped patient, grows living, breathing children off her chest. These faceless perversions, products of her illness, band together to destroy anyone who might upset her delicate psyche. That's the kind of idea that turned Cronenberg into a legend. Avco Embassy subsequently offered Cronenberg his first chance to direct a solvent picture...
Some entrepreneurs also complain that corporate giants are indifferent to small projects. Harris J. Bixler, president of Boston's Avco Everett Research Laboratory, contends that new products that promise tidy but unextravagant revenues go unsupported by Big Business even though the initial investment might be low. Says he: "Large companies could care less about the guy who has a $100,000 idea. They'd lose that in the paper-clip account." Such technological triumphs as Xerography and Polaroid film were developed by small innovator-entrepreneurs only after larger firms turned down the ideas...
...chairman, Owens-Illinois, Inc.; Donald N. Frey, chairman, Bell & Howell Co.; W.H. Krome George, chairman, Aluminum Co. of America; Henry J. Heinz II, chairman, H.J. Heinz Co.; William A. Hewitt, chairman, Deere & Co.; Barron Hilton, president, Hilton Hotels Corp.; Matina S. Horner, president, Radcliffe College; James R. Kerr, chairman, Avco Corp.; Robert E. Kirby, chairman, Westinghouse Electric Corp.; Walter J. Levy, president, W.J. Levy Consultants Corp.; Sol M. Linowitz, senior partner, Coudert Bros.; Stewart G. Long, vice president, Trans World Airlines, Inc.; Robert H. Malot, chairman, FMC Corp.; Hamish Maxwell, senior vice president, Philip Morris Inc.; Walter J. McNerney, president...