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Other contractors, increasingly wise to the toll of inflation, tell the Pentagon that they will sign only pacts that let them set the final price when the weapons are actually delivered...
...disbanding because its members want more leisure for family life. There are grumblings about insufficient money for playing 200 concerts a year. Heath described himself as netting a little less each year than a New York sanitation worker. Social and financial exigencies aside, human tensions have doubtless taken a toll. At a post-concert supper, the four guests of honor mingled politely, then submerged into separate pockets of gloom...
Because of Watergate, the integrity of the candidates was another issue, often reflected in campaign styles. Many candidates made a point of disclosing their campaign finances, supporting campaign reform and opposing special interests. But Watergate had taken its toll long before the election, discouraging many top Republicans from challenging incumbent Democrats and drying up sources of G.O.P. funds...
Fresh Antiques. Nightly TV foliage reports and toll-free telephone bulletins on "peak color" kept thousands of viewers up-to-date on the most colorful areas. Varying with temperature and elevation, maples displayed the most brilliant reds, and birches, beeches and oaks were at their brightest yellows and oranges in mid-October this year...
...shooting was another in the killing blitz that has hit Chicago in the past few weeks. The same weekend seven people were killed by gunshot, and another 41 were wounded in nonfatal shootings. The previous weekend's death toll was 26, marking it as one of the bloodiest periods in the city's history since the St. Valentine's Day Massacre...