Word: frugales
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...President's aim was to convince Congress that his Administration will be frugal. As he revealed the big surprises of his speech, he stared straight out at such economy-minded legislators as Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd and House Republican Leader Charles Halleck. The fiscal 1965 budget that Johnson will send to Congress next week, he said slowly and stressing every word, will "call for total expenditures of $97.9 billion-compared to $98.4 billion for the current year, a reduction of more than $500 million. It will call for new obligational authority of $103.8 billion -a reduction...
...then chartered it for twice the price. He has not stopped since. Now a youthful-looking 66, D. K. Ludwig is the world's biggest individual ship operator, commanding a tanker fleet that can carry 2,500,000 tons. As if that were not enough the lean, frugal and publicity-shy Ludwig mines salt in Mexico, refines oil in Panama, raises cattle in Venezuela. He is worth $350 million-give or take $100 million...
...Frommer ground rules are spartan. Though $5 a day covers a room and three meals, exclusive of transportation costs, a frugal tourist is reminded: 1) "Never ask for a private bath with your hotel room. Few Europeans regard a bath or shower as a daily necessity." 2) "Try filling up on two or three continental breakfasts in place of eggs and bacon." 3) "Never patronize a restaurant that doesn't display a menu in its window." 4) "Don't leap to find a hotel. Check your bags at the airport or train station while...
...trail-blazing company she keeps, an experimental elite-educators of educators-that includes M.I.T. Physicist Jerrold Zacharias, Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner and U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel. To Colleague Bruner, "she is in the great tradition of the abbesses of the 16th century." Co-Panelist Zacharias, a frugal man with superlatives, says, "She may well turn out to be the Joan of Arc of education...
Died. Stavros Livanos, 73, Greek shipowner, a frugal, publicity-hating multimillionaire who built a small business into one of the world's biggest privately owned fleets-70 ships (no yacht), with 16 more on order; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland...