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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testify about fraud in return for immunity from prosecution. He told Chiles' subcommittee last month how GSA building managers authorized payments for millions of dollars of maintenance work that was never performed in exchange for cash payoffs, free vacations and contractor supplied prostitutes. Lowry told investigators of a contract for painting 40 miles of pipes inside the walls of a Veterans Administration building in Washington. Said he: "To find the pipes, you would have to take the plaster walls down, so I don't know how they got painted...
...says he would prefer to freeze pilots' salaries for a year, hammer out one basic contract with all eight fractious unions, get higher utilization out of the line's 16 planes and take advantage of newly expanded routes. The U.S. agreed two weeks ago to extend El Al's landing rights beyond New York City to four other cities. El Al will probably start flying to Los Angeles next April and later add Chicago, Miami and Boston. In November it intends to offer a no-frills, no-meals "holiday" class round trip between New York and Tel Aviv...
...sorry you brought that up, kid. This Manifold thing made me decide to play out my option. And my contract has a stipulation that I go to Yale if Bobby Vinton or John Denver comes in before December 31. This could be my last year, kid, this could be my last year...
...your money on "good causes," Theater at the Square is no doubt a good cause. It is a non-profit charitable public corporation (nice combination of words) which offers a theraputic arts program for normal and handicapped children. They were the first such corporation to be awarded a service contract under the Massachusetts Educational Act and they have also received recognition from the United States Commission on Arts for the Handicapped...
...action of the movie has the Heartland boys whipped off to Hollywood and exposed, poor things, to the temptation of Big Bucks. There is a splendidly absurd contract-signing orgy, involving some expensive and schizophrenic kidding of the rock world's overdose of money, and soon Frampton has forgotten all about Strawberry Fields (Sandy Farina), the sappily beautiful girl back home. "A difficult one-week rise from obscurity to stardom," as one of the film's captions puts it, follows...