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DEFENSE. Former Submariner Carter is pledged to reducing defense costs by $5 billion to $7 billion without specifying how or where, though he has often spoken of "tighter management and elimination of waste." He probably can safely pare some $5 billion from Ford's proposed defense budget for fiscal 1978, which is expected to be about $125 billion, v. the $108.8 billion appropriated by Congress for the current year. Half of that total is in personnel costs, and the President-elect most probably will trim away at them...
Easier said than done, of course. Much of Los Angeles County's $3.3 billion annual budget consists of mandated programs that cannot be trimmed. So the board's first act was to pare the county's $2.4 million contribution to air-pollution control-a saving of $1 a year for the average homeowner. Yet something, somewhere, is going to have to give-sooner rather than later...
...social circuit. As his old friend and sometime business partner, ex-Actor Roger Smith (Ann-Margret's husband), puts it, "He was just not pleasant to look at." On Smith's advice, Carr underwent an operation that tied off 18 ft. of intestines and helped to pare his 5-ft. 7-in. frame to a relatively sylphlike...
Butz and others have been pressing to plow under the peanut program. To head off that eventuality, Representative Dawson Mathis of Georgia has recently introduced a compromise bill that would reduce acreage allotments by 22.5% and pare support prices slightly. The showdown could come next year when Congress votes on a new general agriculture bill. If the nation's best-known peanut farmer-who has indicated that he favors lower price supports -is then occupying the White House, it will be interesting to see what recommendations come from the Oval Office...
...will fall heavily on the department of social services, which is often accused of inefficiency; last year many millions of dollars in welfare checks were misplaced, lost or stolen. Meanwhile, the city's biggest bureaucracy, the board of education, tried to fend off cutbacks. Ordered by Beame to pare $39 million from its budget, the board offered to reduce school sports programs or subsidized transportation for handicapped students. Said City Budget Director Melvin Lechner: "The board is still playing games...