Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Testifying before a congressional subcommittee, Air Force Colonel Kenneth N. Beckman, the officer in charge of the C-5A contract, said that in mid-1968 it became clear that Lockheed's original cost estimate of $2.9 billion for 120 C-5As was too low. The Air Force raised the estimate to $3.1 billion, then raised it again to $3.4 billion to reflect a change in specifications. The actual cost has been nearly $1 billion more than the highest estimate. Yet Colonel Beckman said two of his civilian superiors in the Pentagon approved a juggling of the cost reports...
...time ago was actually a big fake. Hollywood is full of cynics who will probably persist in tearing down this legend for years. These same people will say the picture business is closed up as tight as it ever was. They are sure the studio had Miss Turner under contract before they put her in a sweater and on a soda-fountain stool with a straw in her mouth--to be discovered...
SHOOTING! She signed the contract with Universal at the continuity girl's desk. It was not the proverbial start of a career role. For example, the sets were a big old pole bed put down where the sea comes in to make its last foam on the beach and, next to it, what looked like an attic or The Old Curiosity Shop was reconstructed on the sand...
...GUESS that if Universal has Connie under contract that means she is going to be in another movie sometime. I saw her on their lot in California in March and she said she thought so and hoped so. She came into the room wearing mod shoes, a mini-skirt, and a chiffon thin blouse with nothing under it. I thought, My God, like in the magazine, she had broken her fingernail, she said, which was funny to think of because it is so cute a crisis for a starlet to have broken a fingernail. Then she did herself one better...
...Lipset admits that the ease that the faculty members will have in getting federal money may cause hard feelings in other universities. He suggests, then, that the new school "have as a rule that no member of the faculty could consult for a government agency or handle government research contracts. . . . The proposed rule would not bar the Washington faculty from applying for grants from government agencies. Of course, it is difficult to know where a contract ends and a grant begins...