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...about those houses on jiggly earth: Frances Ring, who has lived in Los Angeles since 1937, who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's last secretary and who is currently writing a book about that job, lives on a hillside back in a canyon. Her house is not on stilts, as so many others are, but she explains them by saying, "Well, you're kind of on top of the world. Where else could you have this horizon? And some stayed in place even in the earthquake in '71. You may get a slide, but then the sun comes...
...management has shot down more airplanes, sunk more ships and immobilized more soldiers than all our enemies in history put together," the witness told the crowded Senate hearing room last week. Pentagon Whistle Blower A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a management systems deputy for the Air Force, had been called to testify before Iowa Senator Charles Grassley's Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure. Fitzgerald, fired in 1970 after he disclosed huge cost overruns on the Lockheed C-5A military transport, was restored to his original Pentagon job in 1982 under court order. He complained to the Senate panel that...
...Fitzgerald also testified that on a 1982 tour of a Hughes Aircraft plant in Tucson, he discovered that the company was taking 17.2 hours to do what its own engineers said should take one hour to accomplish in the production of the $892,000 infrared imaging Maverick missile. A Hughes spokesman said Fitzgerald's assertion was untrue. Overall, Fitzgerald estimated, there is about 30% waste in most military contracts. His calculation of the cost to taxpayers: as much as $30 billion a year...
...talent for self-destruction. He was forever negotiating with a series of authority figures: God, Father Flye, Time Inc. Indeed, Bergreen concludes, Agee cast Time in the multiple roles of "his home, his school, his monastery," to the bewilderment of fellow employees like Dwight Macdonald, Alfred Kazin and Robert Fitzgerald...
...four winners-a housewife, a machinist, a manicurist and a hospital maid-are understandably elated: each will receive $263,095 a year, minus the 20% federal tax bite, for the next 21 years. Shortly after hearing that she had won, Weonta Fitzgerald, 64, quit her job as a cleaning woman at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, N.Y. "I was broke, now I'm rich!" she exulted. But the biggest winner by far did not have to wait in line: New York State, which stands to reap an estimated $11 million in education funds from that one giant jackpot alone...