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...general, Bertagna said he and other athletic department officials are happy with the new box. "Considering the budget, I'd say that both the architect and the contractor have done a great...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: A Phoenix of a Pressbox | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...most damning revelations were in the report's catalogue of financial abuse. Many contracts for the manufacture of reactor components were slackly written, lacking even technical specifications. Said Investigator A. Ernest Fitzgerald of one contractor's agreements: "I think it was very decent of Westinghouse to do any work, because it is not clear they have to do anything at all under these contracts." A steam generator priced at $5 million in 1975 actually cost the Government $71 million. The report found evidence of both bribery and fraud by some contractors. A consortium of 753 private utilities agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinch River: a Breeder for Baker | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...Said a Hyatt vice president, James Howard, in a careful letter to the mayor and Missouri Governor Christopher ("Kit") Bond: "We do not know the cause of the tragedy. However, we do know that the structural integrity and safety of the building had been assured by the architects, the contractor, and in subsequent building Somewhere, the assurance flawed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Night the Sky Bridges Fell | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...casual observer, William Holden Bell appeared to be the very model of a hardworking, leisure-loving Los Angeles suburbanite. A U.C.L.A.-trained radar engineer, Bell, 61, had put in 29 years with Hughes Aircraft Co., a major defense contractor once owned by the late Howard Hughes. Together with his pretty second wife Rita, a Belgian-born Pan American airlines cabin attendant, and her nine-year-old son from an earlier marriage, Bell lived in a fairly ordinary-looking condominium complex in Playa del Rey. It had the usual Southern California accouterments-tennis courts, pools, saunas and Jacuzzis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marian and His Curious Friend | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...that the constitutional question has been settled, the Justice Department intends to prosecute some of the more than 500,000 who have not yet registered. Even many of those who had, felt the exemption of women was unfair, for reasons both philosophical and practical. Said San Francisco Painting Contractor Mike Gallegioni, 21: "It will be lonely without them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Draft: For Men Only | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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