Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Competing Within. For all its diversification, Bendix can stand more. The Pentagon's 17th largest prime contractor and an even more important subcontractor (Government business accounts for 64% of its volume), it was hard hit last year by cutbacks in the defense program, saw sales drop to their lowest point in five years. The push for more nongovernment business has been stepped up by a new top management team that took over five months ago. The team: A. P. (for Athanas Paul) Fontaine, 60, the chairman and chief executive officer, and George E. Stoll, 58, president and chief operating...
Strict liability has long applied to ultrahazardous activities. A contractor using explosives, for example, is strictly liable for injuries to bystanders. But except in the case of food and drink, the doctrine has never applied until recently to normal sales transactions. Now it is being rapidly extended to cover the sale of almost any product that has some potential danger-from roller skates to airplanes. A key precedent in this process occurred in 1960 after a New Jersey driver slammed his new car into a brick wall, apparently because the steering wheel was defective. Even though the trial judge...
...hill face to anchor his foundations halfway up. Says one dispossessed resident: "Even a child building sand castles on the beach knows that if the boy next to him cuts away the base of his sand pile, the castle is going to collapse." On the other hand, the contractor's site was checked by geologists before the city issued him a building permit...
...boycott, and local churches have had little luck in trying to go it alone. When one racially mixed Presbyterian church in St. Louis insisted on a fair-employment clause in a contract to renovate its sanctuary and build a new community house, it spent months trying to find a contractor willing to cooperate. Even then, difficulties were encountered-such as pipes filled with concrete. Was this a deliberate attempt to frustrate integration? "You can draw your own conclusions," answers the pastor...
Near the Colton airport, which he operates, Maxwell and two contractor partners dug a 17-acre lake in the shape of a hollow rectangle and lined it with plastic to keep the water from draining away into the sand (TIME, Oct. 12, 1962). In the center is a 4½-acre park with a swimming pool, paddle-tennis courts, refreshment stands and palm trees. The 250-ft.-wide ski course runs beneath four towers that support an overhead steel cable, powered by a 74-h.p. diesel engine. At ten-second intervals it carries 77-ft. tow ropes past a carpeted...