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...leading Houston builder admits...
...seems to be that both companies were contractors on work that has been judged vital to the national security-and thus, when they exhausted their ability to borrow privately, they were able to make offers that the Navy could not refuse. If the Pentagon had scuttled Gap as the builder of a fire-control system in the new $1.4 billion DE1052 model destroyer program, another contractor, according to a Navy official, "would have had to gear up and in the long run spend a hell of a lot more" than the Navy paid to salvage Gap. In Grumman...
PUBLICK THEATER. 1175 Soldier's Field Rd. Ibaen's Master Builder, at 8. SHUBERT THEATER. Grease. Mon.-Sat. at 7:30 p.m., mats...
Pride. Hanslin was born a builder. His grandfather was a Swiss-German carpenter; his father headed a construction firm, as did two uncles. Indeed, the competing family firms built up miles of land in and around St. Louis during the 1920s and 1930s-with young Emil digging and hammering as a laborer for both of them. He launched a career as a theatrical director, but one night he heard his father and an uncle debating about who had built better houses. "At first I thought it was damn funny, but then I began getting the message. These guys arguing over...
...INTERFACE, developed by Boat Builder Ken Mobert of San Rafael, Calif., is played on a Y-shaped board with 108 squares and 18 irregular quadrilaterals. Six of the quadrilaterals -which are located in the triangular zone, or interface, where the three sectors of the board meet-are colored red and called "transit points." As in traditional chess, each player starts out with a regulation army of 16 pieces -red, black or white-which move in the standard way, unless they land on a transit point. Then strange things can happen. A bishop, for example, can transfer from a diagonal...