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...boom in continuing education is biggest in the aerospace industry, where landing a Government contract requires a bidder to design the thingumbob in the first place. "We want to do our thinking before we start bending metal," says Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. At North American Aviation, where formal educational enrollment has almost doubled to 10,000 in five years, employees can get fulltime graduate fellowships, part-time work-study fellowships, or join one of hundreds of in-plant classes that range from hypersonic boundary layer theory to environmental control systems for the Apollo moon rocket. Since 80% of North American...
...bids are reopened, there is a chance that new entries may complicate odds on the sweepstakes. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is believed to be interested in the land, says Hayes. Cambridge developer John Briston Sullivan, a $4 million bidder last year, said last night that he is also back in the running...
Reynolds testified that he paid that sum to Baker out of an approximate $10,000 commission he had earned for writing a performance bond on Philadelphia Contractor Matthew McCloskey, successful bidder on the stadium project. McCloskey, who recently resigned as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, is a longtime Democratic Party moneybags. Reynolds said that Baker arranged for him to meet McCloskey in Baker's Capitol office. Reynolds also testified that he paid $1,500 from the same commission to William N. McLeod Jr., then clerk of the House of Representatives' District of Columbia Committee...
Since then, the Saigon press corps has been given glimpses of photographs purporting to show the brothers in death, by a mysterious, elusive little man who offered to sell copies to the highest bidder, but then invariably disappeared. Last week United Press International finally acquired two such pictures from an unidentified source. In the photographs the brothers hardly look like suicide victims, accidental or otherwise. Both are still wearing the Roman Catholic priests' robes in which they attempted to escape after their regime caved in; their faces are bloodied and bruised, Nhu's hands tied behind his back...
...surprise of some, three proud companies-General Dynamics, Douglas and McDonnell-bowed out of the competition. Main reason was money: though the Government is expected to put up $750 million, the winning bidder must risk $250 million of its own-vastly more than any company has ever gambled simply to develop a plane...