Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year, while Democrats were preoccupied by the Teddy-Eddie battle for the Senate nomination, Peabody won his party's endorsement for Governor. But he still looked like a loser against Republican Governor John A. Volpe, a former contractor who had balanced the budget and who, as an Italian Catholic, seemed likely to win many votes from Democratic voting blocs...
...world's biggest manufacturer had bracing news last week. General Motors said that earnings during this year's first nine months set a record of $962 million. The picture was also bright for the nation's largest defense contractor. General Dynamics snapped back from a loss of $143 million in 1961 to post a profit of $34 million during 1962's first nine months. Much of the comeback resulted from General Dynamics' decision to write off the losses from its Convair 880 and 990 jets in a single year (1961) instead of spreading them over...
...muster all the scientific capabilities needed to occupy a commanding place in space. Douglas would make a good mate. It offers a large write-off against future taxes. Due largely to development costs on its DC-8 jetliner, its 1959-60 deficits totaled $52 million. Douglas is the contractor for the nation's first airborne ballistic missile, the Skybolt, and for the Saturn moon rocket booster. In addition, Douglas and McDonnell share a $1,800,000 contract, jointly awarded them by the Federal Aviation Agency, to develop a supersonic transport...
Tchin-Tchin, which Sidney Michaels adapted from a French play by François Billetdoux, is a wry, tender, amusing, pathetic fable about a wildly incompatible man and woman who come together to pool their emotional losses. Caesario Grimaldi (Anthony Quinn) is an Italian-American contractor, as coarse and gravelly as raw concrete. Pamela Pew-Pickett (Margaret Leighton) is as properly British as the hyphen in her name. When they meet by appointment in a Rockefeller Center restaurant, he sloshes through double Scotches and she sips tea. But he is a wounded animal and she is a shattered teacup...
Spies & Smears. Anguished cries of "smear" have come from both candidates-with considerable cause. Democrats, for example, have launched a whispering campaign that reads the most sinister implications into a 1956 loan of $205,000 to Nixon's brother, Donald, by a firm owned by Defense Contractor Howard Hughes. On the other side, many G.O.P. county headquarters have been selling a 50? booklet by an alleged onetime FBI counterspy, which, among many other things, charges that "Governor Pat Brown, over the years, has established an unchallengeable record of collaborating with and appeasing Communists from top to bottom." Both candidates...