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Even the televised Los Angeles Hotline gets its share of adult calls, including one of the few stumpers the program has ever received. Once a contractor phoned to ask Math Specialist Hall Davidson how much cement to pour for the foundation of a house whose dimensions the man did not know. Baffled, Davidson turned to Producer Greene. His helpful comment was "Make sure he doesn't do your house...
Almost any Rickover whim, it appears, was the contractor's command. When Rickover, who wore cheap metal tie clasps, saw one that he liked better on the tie of a General Dynamics employee-even when it was gold-he simply reached over and made a quick trade...
...took," Rickover admitted on the CBS program 60 Minutes last week. "So did others. I don't deny it." But "the question that ought to be asked," insisted Rickover, "is, Did I ever favor General Dynamics or any other contractor?" In fact, Rickover was known for leaning on contractors to meet deadlines, budgets and quality specifications. It was he who triggered a formal investigation of General Dynamics for cost overruns in 1978. The probe, carried out by the Justice Department, produced no indictments and was dropped...
Last spring ADL, primarily a defense contractor, sued the City of Cambridge to block an ordinance which prohibited the testing, storing and transportation of nerve gas agents within city limits. The case is currently pending before Middlesex Superior Court...
Councilor David E. Sullivan said the ordinance was proposed after community activists complained that Arthur D. Little, Inc.--a Department of Defense contractor--is planning to build new laboratory facilities...