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Moreover, many contractors are now turning down military contracts in favor of sales to private companies; they find that commercial orders yield less paper work and better profits. Says Admiral Isaac Kidd, Chief of the Naval Matériel Command: "It is no longer a buyers' market where we could dictate through contracts...
...fact, Kidd and other Pentagon planners are finding that some of the contracts they do sign are all but worthless. Because inflation has wiped out their profits on fixed-price deals, some contractors are backing out of their commitments, even though they risk being sued for default. Says Admiral Kidd: "Subcontractors tell us that it is simply cheaper for them to renege on the or der with the prime contractor. Litigation for default will cost them $3 million to $5 million, but at least they will keep the company" - which might go bust if it sold at the originally agreed...
...star of Texasgulf's metals division is the Kidd Creek Mine at Timmins, Ont., the world's richest source of zinc and silver as well as a major supplier of copper, lead and cadmium. In addition to its Canadian holdings, Texasgulf owns sulfur mines in Texas and Louisiana, a potash mine in Utah, three iron mines in Australia and woodlands in Pennsylvania. Despite a somewhat desultory performance in the stock market in recent years, Texasgulf has impressive profits. In this year's first half, it earned $22.9 million, almost double last year's rate, on sales...
Anthony Burgess is undoubtedly a genius. If it weren't for Christopher Plummer's nearly flawless performance and the percise, well-conceived staging of director Michael Kidd, Burgess might have succeeded in turning Edmond Rostand's intelligent play into the sentimental pap Cyrano de Bergerac clearly wasn't. Cyrano the new musical running three weeks in Boston before its Broadway debut, muffles the impact of the original play...
...musical maintains a satisfactory pace because of Kidd's eye for stage movement and because Christopher Plummer does Rostand's lines so well. It would be far, far better to see Plummer in the original play, but as Cyrano's opponents discover, in swordfights or musicals, you take what you're stuck with...