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...President Nixon, the C.E.D. said, should demand repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires payment of "prevailing" local wages on most federally assisted construction projects. In practice, that really means payment of the highest rate that any union has been able to wring out of any contractor in the area...
...commissioners-a farmer, a contractor and a forester-took their responsibilities seriously. While approving the plant, they put ten severe restrictions on its wastes. Result: Spruce Tissue resented being told precisely what kind of low-sulfur fuel oil to use, and said it could not comply with water-pollution regulations that sounded as though the company would have to clean up the entire Hoosic River...
Crown thereby lost his first battle for General Dynamics. But early this year, the 74-year-old colonel, who served as an Army procurement officer during World War II, took the offensive in a second fight to control the huge, troubled defense contractor. Ironically, his chief obstacle was none other than the man he had brought in as General Dynamics' president in 1962: Roger Lewis, 58, who subsequently sided with the faction that forced Crown to sell...
...corruption. Once, when his sleuthing turned up a long-missing road scraper that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation had been unable to find, the Constitution published a map showing tne GBl where it could find its machine. Next day the GBl sheepishly picked it up and charged a guilty contractor several thousand dollars for "renting" state property...
...simply a play in which they so dominate that contributions by other hands are hopelessly swamped. It is Home, a wry, rather thin portrayal of a group of crotchety elders in what turns out to be a mental institution, written by David Storey (whose other current London play, The Contractor, gives emphatic proof that his gifts are not always going to be swamped). As two inmates in the twilight of sanity and senility, Gielgud and Richardson are living textbooks of stagecraft, distilling decades of experience into the flourish of a cane, the fumbling of a card trick, the crack...