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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July 24, the Air Force had announced that it would terminate its contract by June, 1971, as the Corporation had asked...
...Navy had announced in May that it would not accept incoming freshmen into a Navy ROTC program this year. Legally the Navy can terminate its contract this summer. Navy officials, who were not available yesterday, have not yet announced the program's future...
However, since either party may terminate the present contract after one year's notification, the Secretary of Army will terminate the program by the end of the coming academic year, according to Brigadier General C. P. Hannum...
...unnecessary finesse accounts annually for thousands of set contracts, hundreds of lost rubbers and tens of lost tournaments. Today's contract, for example, was reached through an aggressive yet logical sequence of bidding. There are two lines of play from which this hand could be approached. If you are a beginner, you could politely smile at your partner as he laid down his hand and you realize that you have a fifty-fifty chance of making the contract, depending on where the king of clubs lay. Naturally you take the first trick with the ace, play out two rounds...
...mercenary because I'm not involved any more." That is how Bill Russell, player-coach of pro basketball's champion Boston Celtics, announced his retirement in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED last week. By giving up his coaching job ("that prime incubator of ulcers") and his $250,000-a-year contract, Russell ends a career in which he helped the Celtics to eleven championships in 13 seasons. Russell says he is now considering a career in "the field of entertainment." But back in Boston, they were taking it all with a grain of salt. Said Celtics General Manager Red Auerbach...