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...answer lies perhaps less with Johnson than with Caro. His narrative never stumbles, his prose never flattens. The lengthy sketches of supporting players, like Sam Rayburn and Contractor Herman Brown, are masterly in themselves. And the secret love affairs, cash-stuffed envelopes and other reportorial hand grenades seem to come remarkably often for so long a book on so familiar a subject. But then, as acquaintances, biographers and most Americans at least a few years beyond voting age have long known, Lyndon Johnson seldom failed to surprise. Volume II cannot either. The envelopes, please. -By Donald Morrison...
...tempting as it may seem to believe that the administration has finally decided to try to control the wastefulness of military spending, the new emphasis on limiting the contractors is probably just a reaction to the fading public faith in the new arms race. Both the President and his military advisors rely on polls, and the ten-year low in Americans who want a buildup has surely affected policy decisions. And, as one contractor complained, the crackdown on wastefulness actually seems to be a ploy to regain support for the overall escalation: "The Administration is out to show that...
...Jackson Construction Co.--The contractor assigned to build the Q-RAC according to Hoskins' specifications...
Officials said yesterday that Horner has not made a decision because the Q-RAC's architect and contractor and Harvard construction experts have not agreed on who will repair the squash courts in the gym that have suffered serious water damage...
Amid lawsuits, contract disputes and turf battles among the parties involved-Amtrak, the railroads, the architects, the contractor, Congress, the Park Service, the Federal Railroad Administration and the Departments of Interior and Transportation-construction finally began in May 1974. "I'll never forget that day they put the jackhammers in the floor," says Nita Shaw, a secretary at the station for 31 years. "I had to walk over to the Capitol to calm down and stop crying...