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Suffocation. Colorado-born Economist Mather was 39 when he took over in 1954 -the nation's youngest land-grant college president. What he got for the honor was a stepchild institution, utterly straitjacketed by the state's frugal division of personnel and standardization, which controlled teachers and salaries by the same procedures applied to road building. The setup was so suffocating that Phi Beta Kappa refused to charter a Massachusetts University chapter...
Paying a Little Back. Tijerina soon opened nine more schools, got strong support from Texas Governor Price Daniel, who appointed him to a top-level committee studying the state's educational needs. This spring, of dozens of appropriations urged by the committee, the only one passed by the frugal state legislature was a $1,300,000 bill to set up Tijerina-style schools throughout Texas. Reason: hundreds of five-year-olds have now had the Tijerina treatment, and less than 5% have flunked the first grade...
...point there was no argument: the frugal French are most frugal with water. In the villages, the committee found, "water is employed with parsimony." But wine keeps flowing at the same rate even when the price goes...
...Pius had a mania about wasting a second. Sitting under a red umbrella in the shade of a huge ilex tree (he could not bear strong sunlight), or walking briskly in his shaded garden, he kept his nose buried in documents he was studying. During his solitary, silent and frugal meals, Pius listened to the news broadcasts, but so chary was he of an unnecessary word that once when he sneezed and his normally silent barber instinctively exclaimed "Salute!" the Pope replied "Grazie," then quickly warned, "Basta, basta,"-enough, enough...
...send our products to the people of the world in an unending stream." Employees then tree off to their work benches, but the uplift does not end there. In their monthly pay envelopes are pictures of Founder Matsushita beaming broadly over additional mottoes such as: "Be frugal; save...