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...only is passenger traffic running 3.2% ahead of 1970, but the lines have laid off some 10,000 employees, deferred $185 million worth of new plane orders, eliminated about 700 flights from their schedules, and otherwise cut operating costs to the leanest levels in years. The CAB last April granted the trunks a 6% fare increase and is expected to permit another 3% rise this spring. The wage controls of Phase II will probably help hold down the industry's labor costs, which have risen at least 43% per employee since 1966 and account for nearly half...
Mendicant Life. Editor Rabinowitch did not expect the Bulletin to prosper, and he was right. "To say that the Bulletin was founded on a shoestring would be to describe it as overdressed," he says. Despite one of the leanest budgets in the business-currently $24,000 a year-it has lived a mendicant's existence, begging office space from the University of Chicago, money from foundations, handouts from subscribers, art work from a physicist's wife, and articles from the leading scientists of the world. Its admonitory pages bristled with urgent crusades: for disarmament and against military control...
...Three. That left one Republican well in front: New York State's able Attorney General Louis Jacob Lefkowitz, 56. Born and bred in Manhattan's Lower East Side slums, sad-eyed Louis Lefkowitz worked his way through Fordham law school, worked faithfully for the Republicans during their leanest years, was tapped as a city judge by La Guardia, later did handsomely in private law practice, and has proved himself a hard and effective campaigner...
...will start at 2% and move up gradually to 3% by 1964. A sinking fund will be started to buy up the bonds in the free market or pay them off by lots at par-$1,000 plus $100 settlement on back interest. It was a lean agreement-the leanest yet in the Council's history-but the council told bondholders it was the best they could expect from sorely strained Bolivia...
...bottles and partridges from the tables, for the painter honored by the Goncourt does not like rosy cheeks, but prefers gaunt figures bent over plates garnished with fish vertebrae." The guest artist: Bernard Buffet, 27, France's most popular painter (TIME, March 21), whose portraits depict the leanest and hungriest figures since Picasso's Frugal Repast...