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...Patrick Gray III, 61, a career naval officer who served as acting FBI director from May 1972 to April 1973, when he returned to his law practice in Groton, Conn., after withdrawing his name from nomination as J. Edgar Hoover's successor because of growing opposition in the Senate. The chief reason: Gray had destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal...
...Groton, Conn...
...will halt work in April on a $1.4 billion contract to build 18 nuclear attack submarines unless Washington ponies up an additional $544 million to pay the company for cost overruns. A shutdown would throw 14,000 employees out of work at the company's shipyards in Groton, Conn., and at Quonset Point, R.I., where components are made, and deal a stunning blow to the economies of both towns...
...some 35,000 engineering and design revisions, which the company could make only by incurring expenses that chewed into company cash. General Dynamics, under orders from its lawyers, would not specify what changes were involved, and the Navy simply refused to comment. But a General Dynamics official at the Groton yards offers some free-form insight. Says he: "If you design a space to hold three bunks, and then you want four, you got trouble because each bunk has its own air conditioning and lighting. See what I mean...
When Sue St. Louis played those pickup games in Groton this summer, she nurtured the hope that in the fall she might "be good enough to make the team" at Harvard. It seems fair to say now that she's reached that level...