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...NIXON SELLS GOOD USED CARS, Wallace uncharacteristically told reporters: "Let's don't talk politics. The people of Alabama have a high regard for the presidency." Said pleased Presidential Aide Harry Dent: "Oh boy, that Southern strategy really worked this week. A lot of people misjudge the reservoir of strength for Richard Nixon in the South...
Lockheed has also built up a reservoir of ill feeling in the industry because many rivals believe that it has often used abrasive competitive tactics. It has a reputation for "buying in" on Government projects, bidding unrealistically low on the assumption that once the contract was landed, the costs could be renegotiated upward. On Lockheed's C-5A military transport alone, the Government has laid out an extra $1.3 billion to pay for "cost overruns." Still, Lockheed last year managed to lose money on the C-5A and three other major military contracts...
...aloofness Tricia commands a ready reservoir of warmth and charm when she chooses: many apolitical viewers thought her televised tour of the White House last May outdid Jackie Kennedy's celebrated 1962 performance. But, as one friend explains, "Tricia is a private person living her private life the way she wants." Her romance with Cox remained secret for a long time because she always flies by military jet. So they were able to spend nearly every weekend together in assorted family homes and those of friends-un-tracked. Between weekends, Eddie telephoned every day, "sometimes twice, three times...
...have been made by American companies: Atlantic Richfield (who pioneered the Aretic North Slope of Alaska), Cities Service, the Union Oil Company, and Natomas Oil Company of California. The Wall Street Journal of September 22, 1970 reported rumors that Standard Oil of New Jersey (ESSO) had discovered a huge reservoir of petroleum in its 28,000 square mile concession off the coast of Malaysia, directly adjacent to the South Vietnamese blocks. ESSO has made no public announcement to date, realizing that news of the find would greatly boost the price of South Vietnamese bidding. But ESSO opened a greatly enlarged...
...term development loans to be repaid in ore, and directly investing in their overseas sources of supply. In Queensland, Australia, Mitsubishi has signed a long-term coal contract: in return, it is lending the developer enough money to help build a small town for the workers, a dam and reservoir, roads and a rail line. Despite this, Australia is one of several countries that have acted outright to discourage the sale of some raw materials. It has urged Australian corporations to stop selling bauxite to the Japanese in ore form, arguing that, to create jobs at home, the mineral should...