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...recent years the scenario involved in developing new weapons has almost always followed the inevitable course of a Greek tragedy: the contractor signs with the Defense Department to do the work; then he runs into cost problems and manages to renegotiate the contract at a higher price. The Pentagon's budget suffers. Lately an angry audience of Congressmen, fed up with the repetitive drama, has been clamoring for the Pentagon to get tougher with defense contractors. Last week Grumman Corp. of Bethpage, Long Island, talked tough in return as it argued the basic question of who pays for cost...
What are these segments of mortality as explored by Storey? In Home, Storey told us of the war against old age, quavering forays into the land mines of memory, desperate territorial imperatives like holding on to a chair in the sun at a home for the insane. In The Contractor, which also had its U.S. première at the Long Wharf, Storey told of the daily war of work, the campaign that liquidates itself with the setting sun and must be fought again the very next day. Man and his toil-Sisyphus agonistes. Men put up a tent...
...energy and inventiveness helped make Litton the pioneer in the conglomerate field. Thornton and Ash founded the company in 1953 with a $1.5 million loan. Today, though shaky, Litton is the 35th largest industrial company in the U.S. and the nation's eleventh largest defense contractor. But since the stock had dropped to 13¾ (it once was 120⅜), Ash's holdings in Litton are worth only $3,000,000; his total personal assets come to about $9,000,000. He announced last week that his Litton stock would be sold and the proceeds placed...
...second largest defense contractor in Cambridge, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN), was the object of a low-keyed demonstration yesterday afternoon by members of the North Cambridge Vietnam Committee...
...North Cambridge Vietnam Committee last night completed plans for a demonstration to be held today against the second largest defense contractor in Cambridge, Bolt, Beranek and Newman. Inc. (BBN). Demonstrators will gather at 4 p.m. opposite the Fresh Fond shopping center and march to the firm's headquarters at 50 Moulton...