Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle" and yarn about his imperious tactics. The new water works? Ah, well, Dabard knew that the town council disapproved, so he appointed an independent commission to "study" the plan. To no one's surprise, the commission thought the project was splendid, and Dabard signed a construction contract. The council protested, but the mayor was ready. "If you question my judgment," he told the councilmen, "it means I no longer have your confidence. Therefore, I will have to resign." The council backed down, as expected...
...will begin printing in London this month to serve its 7,000 British readers more promptly. In the rock-music world, its influence is immense: recent praise of an unknown Texas blues guitarist named Johnny Winter impressed Columbia Records, which, after hearing him, gave him a $600,000 contract. Most of Stone's ad revenue ($70,000 last year, and rapidly rising) comes from record companies, but its reviewers have felt free to knock such hot-selling performers as Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin and The Doors...
...over a tape of their April 6 show to CBS censors by a Wednesday deadline (TIME, April 11). When it did appear, said CBS, the tape contained a "sermonette" segment that was in poor taste. Tom Smothers pointed out that: 1) there is no Wednesday-deadline provision in the contract; 2) the tape was submitted to the CBS Los Angeles office on Wednesday anyway; 3) the brothers had agreed to snip the offending sermonette. CBS's real motive, said Tom, was to find a costless way to cancel the $4.5 million Smothers contract at a date so late that...
...That the principle governing ROTC be that it operate as other ordinary extracurricular activities with no special privilege or facilities granted either by contract or informal arrangement...
...That the University enter into no new contract or informal arrangement that is inconsistent with this principle...