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Even if ADL has refused to accept any more government contracts for offensive weapons to be used in Indochina, that is not enough. Many companies subcontract from others rather than directly from the government and can claim ignorance as to the use of their products. (This is one dodge Raytheon uses in claiming, "We don't know of any of our products being used in Vietnam." In fact their Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles are standard equipment there...
...Physics) have served on committees advising the government on military strategy and technology. Fisher and Kistiakowsky are among the originators of the "automated battlefield" program which now blankers Indochina with blind, mechanized destruction. Harvey Brooks Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, is on the board of Raytheon, the largest military contractor in Massachusetts--and this is only the most glaring of numerous interlocks between the Harvard faculty and local warmakers...
...meeting last night at Hayden Hall, B.U. students elected five representatives to the committee. They also decided to demonstrate today at the Raytheon Corporation, which makes antipersonnel bombs, and at the roxbury District Courthouse...
...Electric, for example, 94% of women employees are clerks and secretaries. Manhattan's Avon Products Inc., which employs women for half of its 10,000 jobs in North America, has promoted only 14 of them to managerial ranks and none to vice presidents or higher. Boston's Raytheon Co. has been engaged in a two-year federal court action over charges by eight women inspectors of precision equipment-all with at least twelve years' seniority-that they had been passed over for advancement in favor of men with less time on the job and had been denied...
Quesada is now smoking contentedly. He produced figures proving that as of April 26, the common stock of the ten companies (Lockheed Aircraft, General Dynamics, McDonnell Douglas, United Aircraft, North American Rockwell, Litton Industries, Grumman, Ling-Temco-Vought, Boeing and Raytheon) was worth $4,723,814,437. On the same date the common stock of Avon Products was valued at $5,618,240,682. It is comforting to learn that the nation values beauty above bullets. It is also disconcerting to think that American women need all that much help to look pretty. But in fact, by a more traditional...