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...profits but eliminates the hazard of loss. More important, this system gives the contractor an incentive to get the job done as quickly as possible. The amount of the fees involved is a closely kept secret. Says the combine's overall boss, Morrison-Knud-sen Vice President Lyman D. Wilbur, who runs the operation from a windowless, green-painted office at No. 2 Duy-Tan Street in Saigon: "We think it's too little and the Government thinks it's too much...
...after the post was created in 1903. The 66-year-old house boasts an elevator (installed by the Douglas MacArthurs), a magnificent view of Washington (thanks to Mamie Eisenhower, who cleared away trees and shrubbery blocking it), a barbecue pit (the Matthew Ridgways), and a hotel-size kitchen (the Lyman Lemnitzers...
...last fall, Railroad Switchman Lyman Mintkenbaugh of Castro Valley, Calif., got a call from his brother James, 46, an Arlington, Va., real estate salesman who had recently come West and moved into a mountain retreat at Arnold, Calif...
...James was having one of his mood fits," Lyman recalled last week, "and had to go off and be by himself. But I figured I'd better get up there because he said he might do something drastic if he couldn't talk to someone." What James wanted to talk about, it turned out, was his twelve years as a Russian spy, which he described as "a lark to make some money." Lyman urged James to do "what mother always taught us - be honest," and call the FBI. James did, and within hours agents were...
...training. Probably more students should be steered into the technical track at the beginning. But too often the community college teacher is as prestige-conscious as his students, and tends to shun nonacademic assignments. "Psychologically, there's even more strain on the faculty than on the students," observes Lyman Glenny, associate director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. "The faculty is more given to snobbishness among its liberal arts people...