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...biggest leak in the Defense Budget comes from another source: the process of procuring goods and services, which cost $44 billion this year. This process involves two stages: Pre-awarding of contracts, and Post-awarding of contract...
...giant slalom race was sanctioned by the United States Ski Association and was included on the international schedule. Harvard Coach Dick Friedman called Watson's victory "the biggest ski race that anyone at Harvard has ever...
Died. Elliott B. Macrae, 67, president since 1944 of E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publishers; of cancer; in New Canaan, Conn. Widely traveled and equally cosmopolitan in taste, Macrae over the years printed something for practically everyone; he sprang Mickey Spillane on the world (seven biggest sellers: 34.6 million copies), published Mountain Climber Maurice Herzog's classic Annapurna, Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, and Evgeny Evtushenko's Selected Poems. His great friend was A. A. Milne, whose whimsical Winnie-the-Pooh sold more than 1,000,000 copies and appeared in a dozen languages-including...
Alcoa official last week, "but this copper thing has given us our biggest boost yet." Some air-conditioning manufacturers, for example, are redesigning condensers and evaporating tubing for aluminum; Detroit's Michigan Utilities Co. has begun converting to aluminum tubing for connections to gas appliances. A good deal of the switching is impelled not by copper shortages but by the rising price of the metal. And however the strike ends, the price seems sure to go only...
...grown steadily to more than 90,000. It later acquired a small, Mississippi-based travel service, now called Reservations World, which is being expanded to pro vide tourists and travel agents with com puterized, one-stop reservation-processing for worldwide hotel and transportation accommodations. Last fall, in the biggest undertaking of all, the Diners' Club paid out $5,000,000 to acquire Fugazy Travel Bureau, the third largest travel agency in the U.S., after Amer ican Express and Thos. Cook...