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Cost estimates are also spiraling upward on a $2.1 billion Navy order for 30 Spruance-class DD-963 destroyers, a new model to be used primarily for antisubmarine duty. Although the contract is designed to hold Litton to fixed prices, it allows for inflation and some other variables that may permit the company to collect additional sums. Some estimates put the eventual cost of each new destroyer at $100 million, v. the $90 million that the Navy deems appropriate; the question is how much of the extra cost will be paid by Litton and how much by the Navy...
...around town in a car equipped with police radio, siren and flashing red light, Winchell became a "national institution" with annual earnings of more than $500,000. Trading plugs for the latest dirt, he played the fawning pressagents for all they were worth, banishing the unfavored to his feared "DD [drop dead] list." His underworld contacts occasionally turned up a genuine "skewp." In one instance he announced the slaying of Gangster Vincent ("Mad Dog") Coll six hours before it actually happened. In another, acting as a go-between in the surrender of Murder Inc.'s Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter...
...much as did the rumor that President Nixon had said that only 30% of their number were really Viet Nam veterans. Though the White House was quick to deny any such statement, the angry veterans collected proof of service at their campsite on the Mall. Veterans turned in 900 DD-214 forms, which attested to their service in Viet Nam. One vet offered his glass eye as testimony, and another a used return ticket from Viet Nam. The evidence also included 200 piasters, a receipt from the Steam and Cream Massage Parlor in Bien Hoa, a membership card from Madame...
...state, his town, and his friends for their intransigence, stupidity, and the rest. His life is in constant danger. The phone threats often go on all night. Each year, sure as Halloween, comes the attempt of some irate group of Greenvillians to start up another paper and put the DD-T, a plague for thirty years, out of business once...
Nevertheless, Harvard Coach Bob Pickett expects a close match. "I think Princeton's a team that's improved week after week," he said yesterday. "They're always strong against us in any sport. I think they'dd be in good condition. Their coach is a driver...