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...overgrown tangle of New Frontier and Great Society programs, many of which are not working the way they were supposed to. His philosophy: "Money isn't the essential element in improving social conditions throughout the country." A man of similar outlook succeeds Weinberger as budget chief. Roy Ash, president of embattled Litton Industries, is charged with applying the latest management methods to Government spending-which means, essentially, spending less. Says a White House staffer: "Ash is going to take a look at the legislation, what its intent was and how it's working. This is going...
...restless, indefatigable man with a flair for statistics and corporate buzz words, Ash is similar to McNamara in many ways. He is an immaculate "clean-desk" administrator who reads three papers a day, believes that everything can be solved when all the facts are known, and has little patience with men who do not perform. He has little time for small talk and even less for social pretension-he still drives to work in a station wagon and wears shiny California suits. The father of five, Ash once applied his business instincts to a long family vacation in Europe...
...Music Man, Gary, Ind., is not one of those garden spots that perennially win community-service awards. Indeed, it is in some aspects the very model of modern urban decay. Founded in 1906 by Industrialist Elbert H. Gary (who judiciously chose not to live there), it sits like an ash heap in the northwest corner of Indiana, a grimy, barren steel town. The sons and daughters of the Poles and Slovaks and Croats, who for generations have worked the foundries, form a decided white minority. Most of the blacks, who make up the town's majority, are law-abiding...
...Ash said he became active in Common Cause last year because "none of the major political parties in this country are capable of effecting any significant change in America's political structure...
...Ash said that Common Cause has represented its national membership of 200.000 by lobbying in Washington to support environmental legislation, bills to end the war, and women's rights, Perkins noted the Common Cause was the only son feminist organization its support the women's rights amendment...