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...determination to shake up his Administration was, among other things, a hopeful sign that he was not necessarily content with the status quo. He seemed determined to grapple with a basic realignment of Cabinet-level departments as he strives for what he described as a Government that would be "leaner but stronger." The move also stirred new speculation about how he would handle such diverse personalities as his former Treasury Secretary, John Connally, Foreign Policy Adviser Henry Kissinger and others on his own myriad White House staff...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN has been subject to as much harassment as the Soviet government is likely to perpetrate upon such a prominent citizen. It has not been the sort of persecution that has sent outstanding scientists or leaner-known intellectuals to mental hospitals. Nor has he been punished with the severity of another order which put writers such as Sinyavsky and Daniel in prison. But the government has prohibited his being published within the Soviet Union and has subjected Solzhenitsyn to intense personal intimidation. In Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, David Burg and George Feifer concern themselves primarily with the difficulties between Solzhenitsyn...
...Nostrand, a staff director for National Young Voters for Nixon: "If the President calls and says, 'I need 500 kids at a press conference,' we can get them there in 20 minutes." Outside the convention hall, the protesting youths (and their elders) that were gathering had a leaner, hungrier look than the more casual and less dedicated dissidents at the Democratic Convention...
...average 192 Ibs. of meat eaten by Americans. Imports have been low partly because of quotas and partly because of quality. While Americans savor the well-marbled steaks and tender roasts that come from grain-fed cattle, foreign ranchers generally raise grass-fed cattle, which produces leaner meat. In the U.S., imported beef is usually ground up into hamburgers and hot dogs...
...average ratio was one colonel for every 3,000 men. Mansfield's point is that the U.S. military in Europe has grown top-heavy. "It is my conviction," he says, "that trimming away the fat in the form of excess supplies and headquarters will result in a leaner, more mobile and more efficient combat force." Besides, Mansfield has persistently argued "that although the deployment of American troops in Europe shows the flag and acts as a trip wire to Warsaw Pact aggression, this could be accomplished just as readily with a greatly reduced force...