invoice date of July 25, but no year was specified. Taking 1959 as the year of delivery, a letter in March of 1960 is not timely since more than 90 days had elapsed since the last material was furnished. Taking 1960 as the proper year of delivery, then the letter of March 18, 1960, becomes premature and would not be a proper claim. Thus we hold that Interstate cannot recover from Contractor and its Miller Act surety since the notice was untimely. From this it follows that Subcontractor's surety, National, is not liable to Contractor for the materials supplied by Interstate to Subcontractor.


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Contractor has counterclaimed for amounts expended incidental to the litigation here and for attorney's fees. The District Judge denied recovery and we think he was correctFriday, November 12, 2010

"In Songs of Mashangva," Rewben Mashangva, above, has a musical message for his people that is chronicled in part by director Oinam Doren, below. Photos from Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival.

AS you’re reading this article, Rewben Mashangva and his 9-year-old son, Saka, may be making their way to another village in northeast India to share some good news.

With self-made instruments in tow, the blues musician and composer is essentially on tour playing oldies and goodies that many from his Tangkhul Naga tribe have all but forgotten. The musical genre is a form of folk that is almost 1,000 years old and was once upon a time fully integrated into the lives of the people in the hill region (Ukhrul district) of Manipur state on