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DIED. Gordon W. Rule, 75, civilian chief of procurement for the Navy who was a relentless, irreverent Government cost cutter; of cancer; in Arlington, Va. Often battling with military, congressional and corporate brass, he saved uncounted taxpayer dollars from 1963 to 1976, most notably when he carved $100 million from Pratt & Whitney's bill for F-111 jet engines...
...request to test the world's most powerful combat simulator. The fate of the earth after the fall out cleared is classified information, but it is no secret that the sophistication of the computer program that created the war game made a big hit with the brass. Says Lieut Colonel Robert Crissman of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command: "It exceeded our expectations...
Britons were for once uniformly outraged. Thundered the Times indignantly: "So much for the guards at Buckingham Palace. The ceremony of changing the Guard will never seem quite the same again ... All that array of scarlet tunics, burnished brass and polished leather, and still an intruder could stroll into the palace and up to the Queen's bedroom without being detected...
...Police brass in a brouhaha...
...BRASS of network television news gathered at the Kennedy School earlier this year to discuss the way they report and as a result affect political events. Academicians, politicians, and print journalists were invited to question and challenge the TV bigwigs, but discussion revealed few new insights. Almost to a man--and woman--the network anchors, producers and executives defensively closed ranks, apparently too sensitive about their side of the news business to absorb the constructive criticism they supposedly sought when they proposed the meeting in the first place...