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...apologized--I didn't know the contractor would change the frame," Busny said...
...struggle for Hughes' fortune, however, is not over. The IRS has just filed a $275 million estate-tax ruling against Summa, which the corporation is contesting. Moreover, the biggest and presumably most profitable Hughes venture, the Hughes Aircraft Co., the nation's eighth largest defense contractor (with more than $2 billion in sales last year), is not controlled by Summa. Since 1953 it has been the property of the Miami-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a nonprofit foundation that is dominated by Lummis' old antagonists Davis and Gay. Hughes' former henchmen have filed suit against Lummis...
...blue business suit, strides to the platform. Backed by an American flag and a Klan banner, surrounded by hoods (literal use), he launches into his speech. Starting slowly, he declares, "I'm a segregationist, and I will die a segregationist." Warming to his task, this former electrical contractor explains that mixing the races will never work because "you cannot make unequal people equal." His philosophical cards on the table, Wilkinson's job becomes easier--his only remaining task is to suggest the future course of public policy. His program includes the shooting of Cuban refugees in the water, voting...
Members of the electricians' union whose work is vital to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) red line extension project, voted Saturday to avert a strike, settling with the National Electrical Contractor's Association (NECA...
Vickers, whose arms once rivaled those of Krupp, is only slightly healthier. Still an important defense and marine engineering contractor, the mighty firm has been suffering from anemic sales since 1977, when the government nationalized its shipbuilding and aircraft operations. Over the past two years, pretax profits have fallen 34% to $15.4 million...