Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Russia, which expects to get cut-rate prices on everything from oil to agricultural products. While 80% of Rumanian exports went to fellow Communists eight years ago, the West is expected to absorb 50% this year. Rumania recently took the unprecedented step of placing a $24 million aircraft contract with a British firm instead of with the Russians. Now the Rumanians are even negotiating to join the Washington-based World Bank-the 107-nation lending organization of which no Communist country except Yugoslavia is a member...
...classified, they include work on such technical questions as ballistic-missile accuracy, surface-to-air missile guidance and the Nike-X warhead. IDA lately has broadened out to provide research on nonmilitary problems. It has studied the probable demand for a supersonic airliner, and is negotiating a research contract with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Officials of IDA argue that if they were free to talk about its classified work, they could prove that the Institute has frequently been more of a restraining influence than an escalating pressure on questions relating to the war in Viet...
...motorcycle accident that the public wasn't told about, and spent a long time recovering, first in a hospital, then in a neck brace. For two years he didn't put out a record. Rumor has it that he was trying to break his recording contract with Columbia because he had wanted the two records of Blonde on Blonde to be released individually instead of in a package. He lived in Woodstock, New York, making a new film and editing one that had already been shot. He was reworking a book he had finished titled Tarantula. The book is reported...
...Board of Overseers yesterday approved the appointment of Robert Harrison, 40, coach at Kenyon College in Ohio for the last ten years, as new basketball coach. Succeeding Floyd S. Wilson--now full-time director of intramural athletics--Harrison received a three-year contract...
...Waugh Co. said that its bids were consistently the lowest-averaging 20% below successful bids in counties where Waugh did not compete-yet it never got a state contract. The defendant companies are studded with Wallace cronies. American Materials & Supply Co., the state's largest supplier last year, has a secretary-treasurer who was a Wallace campaign aide. His driver and errand boy in the 1962 campaign is now an officer of the Wire-grass Construction Co., also named in the suit. The case will probably come to trial in the fall, when it could prove embarrassing to Wallace...