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...Harvard community is still awaiting the first burst of steam this winter as a custom made steam meter, ordered from a Washington contractor over two months ago, has yet to be installed, said George Oommen, senior project development officer for the Harvard University Planning Group...
...They kept on sending letters that said, 'Give me so much money,' " recalls Gerald Colf, 84. "So I did the job I was asked to do." Indeed he did. Colf, a retired home contractor who lived in Hermosa Beach, Calif., gave away more than $4,200 of his life savings last year to 27 conservative groups that solicited him by mail. Overdrawn at his bank, Colf began selling old newspapers for cash and scrounging in trash cans for food...
...that fits over a toilet. It is used aboard the Navy's P-3C Orion antisubmarine planes. Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware, chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee, which looks into suspected cost overruns, had been conducting an investigation of the accessory. Roth was tipped off by a contractor in Washington State who had been asked to bid on the toilet unit in January. When the contractor learned that Lockheed Corp. was charging $34,560 for 54 toilet covers, he wrote a letter to Roth contending that the units could be purchased at most trailer- home sales outlets...
Responding to a media blitz by a local defense contractor, the Cambridge City Council is going to the polls next November to find out how Cantabrigians feel about nerve gas testing within city limits...
...Munich suburb of Gauting last week, two members of West Germany's Red Army Faction shot and killed Ernst Zimmermann, 55, chief executive of MTU, a major West German engine manufacturer and well-known defense contractor. Posing as messengers, a young German couple gained entrance to Zimmermann's white stucco home, forced his wife to lie on the floor and took Zimmermann into another room, where they shot him in the head with a revolver. Zimmermann died twelve hours later. It was the second murder by European terrorists in eight days. On Jan. 25, a shadowy French group called Action...