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Back--Kelly Gutely, Sr. WMPL (Hancock, Michigan) NCAA Hookey Poll (as selected by the Coaches) thru Dec. 6 1. Minnesota-Duluth (14-3-1) (6) 92 2. Minnesota (13-4-1) (3) 86 3. Bowling Green (11-3-2) (1) 79 4. Michigan State (13-3-0) 61 5. Winconsin (10-6-2) 46 6. Clarkson (7-0-1) 45 7. Providence (13-3-0) 44 8. North Dakota (10-8-0) 28 9. Michigan Tech (9-7-0) 28 10. New Hampshire...
...Tinker Air Force Base, watchdogs programmed their computers to detect increases of 300% or more in the cost of spare parts for aircraft engines charged by the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group of United Technologies in fiscal year 1982. The results, said an auditor, were "staggering." Robert S. Hancock, an official of the Air Logistics Center near Oklahoma City, said that in just the one year, Pratt & Whitney's "repricing" policy had cost the Government "something on the order of $140 million." He termed the findings "only the tip of the iceberg" and contended that Pratt & Whitney "has never learned...
...million in total increases and found that $101 million "has been justified." The remaining $39 million, they said, would be "negotiated" with the Government. The company claimed that its spare-parts prices had risen about 20% in each of the past two years, "representative of the aerospace industry." But Hancock disputes this, arguing that the price of Pratt & Whitney spares went well beyond "an average price increase." The Air Force has expanded the inquiry to parts supplied by Pratt & Whitney for the F100 engine, which powers the latest F-15 and F-16 fighters. High executive salaries also are under...
Students in dirt-poor Hancock County, Ga., have always had to make do with less. They have no art teachers, no speech therapists and no full-time physical education program in the elementary schools...
...Hancock County, deep in the cotton belt, is a lucky exception to a disturbing modernization of an old saw: the rich are getting a richer dose of the new technology, while the poor get left further behind. Computers are starting to appear in schools in large numbers. The total, which more than doubled in the past year, is approaching 130,000, or an average of 1.6 classroom computers for each of the nation's 82,000 public schools. But the number of machines available to each school varies widely. A survey by Market Data Retrieval Inc. found that...