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COMPETITIVE BIDDING for defense contracts will increase, if House Armed Services Chairman Carl Vinson has his way. After a 30-month study showed that 94% of all contracts were negotiated, Vinson introduced a bill to hold down negotiated deals in peacetime, may propose an amendment that would peg the total no higher than 50%. One example that influenced Vinson: a 1955 negotiated contract for Air Force rocket launchers originally set the price at $32.62 apiece; competitive bids later brought the cost down...
...idea for the Stevenson script originated in the bouncy political organization of Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, whence came the suggestion that Stevenson, as a peg for taking off on the Eisenhower Administration, might recall the 1952 campaign day when both Adlai and Ike traveled to Kasson, Minn., to set forth their farm policies...
...could remember their names, Casey had brought Tom Morgan in to pitch. Understandably, Bauer dropped a wide throw, and Minoso slid into third. Even so, the Yanks seemed safe. Catcher Moss bounced a routine grounder down to Phil Rizzuto. Incredibly, the incredible happened again. Robinson dropped Rizzuto's peg, Minoso came home, and the Sox were back in front. This time they held on to their lead and walked off the field winners...
...pressure takes several forms. In Japan, as in Korea, it is taxes. A new Japanese tax boost on foreigners (TIME, Aug. 22) will mean that in order to give an American employee $10,000 in take-home pay, a company must peg his salary at $30,000. In Burma laws require that every company have at least 51% Burmese capital and employ at least 75% Burmese nationals. In India and Indonesia, even in the friendly Philippines and cosmopolitan Hong Kong, political and popular pressures are making U.S. firms hire fewer and fewer Americans, more and more Asians...
...against him), Sergeant Gallagher remained calm. At week's end, the court-martial gave its verdict: guilty of the unpremeditated murder of both the sick men he put out into the snow, of the maltreatment-but not the murder-of the third man he had strung from the peg, guilty of collaborating with the enemy. The sentence was the maximum: confinement at hard labor "for the term of your natural life...