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...Continental Divide, Route 40 west of Denver is a spectacular highway. It was a ride Ike thoroughly enjoyed, and he was making it in pleasant company. With him were his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Doud, and a pair of old friends, General Lucius Clay and Washington Contractor Charles Tompkins. Mamie, who has been feeling under the weather and has appeared in public only twice since her arrival in Denver, stayed home...
High & Wide. In Downieville, Calif., anxious to get a county road-building job, Contractor George Miller flew over the county courthouse in a plane, dropped his bid in a weighted envelope five minutes before the deadline, but lost the contract because his bid was too high...
...fine print of almost every contract between the U.S. Government and a private business, these words appear: "The contractor agrees not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color or national origin." Last week Dwight Eisenhower by executive order established a 15-man Government Contract Committee designed to give these fine-sounding words practical effect...
...college courses for G.I.s, the U.S. Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) ran into a mutiny: 16 major universities out of 46 campuses affiliated with USAFI flatly refused to sign the 1954 contract. The offending clause, which the 16 felt was an invitation to federal control of American education: "The contractor will not employ or retain for the performance of services under this contract such persons as are disapproved by the Government." Among the universities pulling out: Michigan, California, Illinois, North Carolina, Minnesota and Wisconsin...
During a Florida vacation in 1951, J. (for Joseph) Elgin Armstrong, a horse-fancying contractor from Brampton, Ont., took a fancy to a yearling filly named Helicopter. Half an hour later, he bought the little brown trotter from her trainer and part owner, Del Miller, for $7,900. Explains Armstrong now: "I wanted to win the Hambletonian...