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Married. Christina Onassis, 20, only daughter of Aristotle Onassis and his first wife Tina, and Joseph Bolker, 47, a Southern California builder; she for the first time, he for the second; in Las Vegas...
...heart of matters, drops the impractical, dissimulates when necessary and never gambles-without four aces. In talks I have had with China's two great men, it usually is Chou who meticulously answers the main questions and Mao who enlarges the broad and dialectical view. He is a builder, not a poet...
...directed by Congress to swallow some $200 million in cost overruns, has convinced other contractors that they had better spot and announce excess costs well in advance of production. Last week the top echelon of the Pentagon was debating the future of a major new weapons system after its builder informed the Navy that the contract was no longer economically feasible...
...contractor was Long Island's Grumman Aerospace Corp., builder of the Navy's long-awaited F-14 fighter, a swing-wing Mach 3 jet that is designed to waylay any enemy missile-armed bombers sent to attack American ships. In 1969, the Pentagon awarded Grumman a contract to build 722 of the planes, figuring to pay $11.5 million for each of them, or $8.3 billion for the lot. But last April, a Grumman official formally announced to Navy headquarters that it had become "commercially impracticable" for his company to construct more than the 38 planes that...
...Divinity School, recruiting men like Paul Tillich and Krister Stendahl, and provided new housing for the Education and Design Schools. Under his leadership, Harvard went into the air for the first time, with high-rise buildings like Leverett, Mather, and Williams James. Monuments to Pusey's ability as a builder will remain all over Cambridge long after the current generation of undergraduates has become a memory...