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Bent on saving money in big as well as little ways in his battle against inflationary government deficits, the President directed his Cabinet ministers to scan departmental budgets and pare away any padding. He expects to cut the overall budget drawn up by the preceding administration by at least...
...Rise of Mass Marketeers. But credit was not the only power behind the boom. In 1955 businessmen saw the speedup of a revolution in U.S. merchandising methods as retailers learned to pare selling costs, thus get more goods to more customers...
Next came the brothels, but with somewhat less success. As police entered the Dai La Thien and the Pare aux Buffles (Stockyard), a lower-class emporium with a mere 200 population, scores of girls scrambled to safety over back walls. In some other places, indignant Foreign Legion and Vietnamese troops stood off the cops with rifles, and opposition from the military generally was so strong that Diem later exempted field brothels from...
...Labor Party's trouble, observed the Manchester Guardian, is that it has "a leader who does not lead and a follower who does not follow." When it came time to operate, the Labor leadership's hand began to shake a little. It was not easy to pare down the clever and glamorous rebel from the coal fields of Ebbw Vale. While he offends the solid, burgherlike Labor leaders with his wild speeches on foreign policy and scares away perhaps 1,000,000 middle-of-the-road Britons who might otherwise tend toward Labor, Bevan has a rebel...
...racing. A dedicated professional, Cyclist Bobet wore le maillot jaune almost all the way. And after the backbreaking scramble to Briangon, the last laps across the Vosges Mountains and the black roads of the North Country all seemed downhill. At week's end, Bobet pedaled into Paris' Pare des Princes, a comfortable 15 min., 49 sec. ahead of Switzerland's Kubler. Third man in the Tour's history to win twice running, Bobet earned $28,500 in prize money, an estimated $43,000 in extras and France's heartfelt bravo...