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...Government's foremost concern has always been alien involvement in national security. The Atomic Energy Commission, for example, cannot grant licenses to foreigners or foreign-controlled corporations for operating a nuclear reactor or for producing nuclear fuel. The Government also requires security clearance for any contractor or subcontractor dealing in classified projects. All directors and principal officers of a company doing such work must be investigated, and foreigners generally are not granted clearance. In effect, a company involved in sensitive Government business is permitted to have some foreign stockholders, but participation by aliens in management must be kept...
Brown's most valuable knack is for picking new plays. Long Wharfs productions of David Storey's The Changing Room, about a lower-class rugby match, and The Contractor, which literally raises a tent around contemporary alienation, moved to Broadway to win, respectively, the Drama Critics Circle best-play awards of 1972 and 1973. Brown may complete the hat trick this year with Peter Nichols' black comedy The National Health. These plays are all British. Brown, who receives 20 scripts a week, is regretful but firm about his evident Anglophilia. "I have not yet found American playwrights...
...does, it will send back closeup pictures and other data from the ringed planet. Of four Pioneers that were launched into solar orbit between 1965 and 1968 to monitor interplanetary space, all are still transmitting scientific data-even though they were designed by Pioneer's prime contractor, TRW Inc., to last only six months; only one is experiencing some difficulty with a solar sensor. Signals are also still coming from Pioneer 10, which is now heading out of the solar system. Says Pioneer Project Scientist John H. Wolfe: "We now figure that if they make it for six months...
...fact, Kidd and other Pentagon planners are finding that some of the contracts they do sign are all but worthless. Because inflation has wiped out their profits on fixed-price deals, some contractors are backing out of their commitments, even though they risk being sued for default. Says Admiral Kidd: "Subcontractors tell us that it is simply cheaper for them to renege on the or der with the prime contractor. Litigation for default will cost them $3 million to $5 million, but at least they will keep the company" - which might go bust if it sold at the originally agreed...
...Atlanta area, the rich are dispensing with full-time yardmen and entrusting the manicuring of lawns to commercial garden-maintenance firms; several families have put then" chauffeurs behind the lawnmower in nondriving hours. These days many servants are grateful to have any job. A wealthy Los Angeles contractor leaves his Rolls in the garage and the chauffeur in the garden when he visits a potential customer; instead, he drives his wife's beat-up Volkswagen to convey an impression of cost-consciousness...