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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shakedown Cruise. The Glomar Explorer's 170-man crew was selected and put on contract by the CIA. The 40 men on the mining staff obviously knew the ship's secret mission; the others probably did not. All refused to talk to outsiders about the ship, except to say that it had a gymnasium and the food was good. On Nov. 4, 1972, the Glomar Explorer was launched and left shortly thereafter on its shakedown cruise. According to one account, it tested its detection equipment and some of its recovery systems at the site of the 1968 accidental...
...still at large. But in the process of investigating the theft, local police got into the act, and eventually the Los Angeles Times got a garbled version of Jennifer from a tipster. On Feb. 8 of this year the newspaper ran a story about a CIA-Hughes contract to raise a Soviet submarine supposedly sunk in the Atlantic. The CIA waited with bated breath to see if the rest of the press would pick it up or, worse, if the Soviets would...
...strike against voluntary and municipal hospitals with a total capacity of 12,000 beds had been brewing for a long time. Since last fall, the Committee of Interns and Residents, with 3,000 members at the various hospitals, has been attempting to negotiate a new contract for its members. The problem of money was solved rather easily when the young doctors, who currently earn between $13,500 and $19,200 a year, agreed to drop their demands for an 11 % increase in salary. They settled with the League of Voluntary Hospitals for an 8% hike instead...
What Harvard will now provide Roxbury is unknown, and awaits contract negotiations between the University and the high school--which will take place only if federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. approves the plan...
...follow-up two days later caused more of a flap: a thunderous attack on a $342,000 contract by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study the sex lives of Michigan State College students, mostly to find out why some fail to use birth control devices. Charging a "serious mismanagement of taxpayers' funds," Proxmire pointed out that the contract was awarded noncompetitively last fall to a former official of the institute for nearly $100,000 more than had been requested. For overkill, the Senator tossed in the argument that the students' privacy might...