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Time was when the U.S. bureaucracy measured its girth in red tape. Nowadays the proper measure is paper (only a few yards of red tape are still used each year, mainly to bind treaties). This week a Hoover Commission task force estimated that the Government's paper work is costing the taxpayers $4 billion a year. By economizing in carbon copies, cutting down on gobbledygook and other reforms, the task force reckoned the Government could save a tidy $255 million annually...
Swollen like the Seine on the overflow of unseasonable rains and winter thaws, other European rivers as well were on the rampage. At Bonn, Germany's normally sedate Rhine River was twice its usual girth, marooning U.S. High Commissioner Conant in his home. Whooping with glee, Rhineland children cruised their family basements in washtubs, while resigned elders watched the water level, carefully marked on the stained walls of riverside inns, climb higher than it had since...
...stage of the City Hall auditorium in Hawthorne (pop. 1,861), and threaded his way through the miners, gamblers, shopkeepers and housewives who were his faithful followers. As he stopped for a moment to listen to a constituent's problem, he was still a picture-book Senator: generous girth, flashing blue eyes, and silver hair curling down around his collar. Then his knees buckled, and as he fell to the floor, his heart stopped. Pat McCarran, one of the most powerful political figures in the U.S., was dead...
...Distributed thus: Jockey Guerin, 113 Ibs.; equipment (saddle, girth and saddle cloth), 4½. Ibs.; flat lead weights in saddlecloth slots, 12?...
...Italian government has made it clear that a favorable Trieste settlement is its price for ratification of EDC. Western military planners, attempting to fix a barrier across the girth of Europe, consider Trieste vital to the defense of Italy and southern France, for it represents the only break in the formidable chain of mountains that runs from Geneva itself to the Adriatic sea. The successful defense of this gap clearly depends on the co-operation of Yugoslav and Italian forces...