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...history. Of that amount, more than half will go into military spending. Thus the defense budget was plainly the best place to start chopping away. With that fact well in mind, Johnson told Defense Department civilian officials that they must "make the largest effort and achieve the biggest savings." No sooner said than done-or at least started. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced that operations would either be cut off or curtailed at 26 defense installations in 14 states (see map), eliminating 5,643 civilian jobs. Coupled with the shutdown of seven overseas bases (identities unspecified), the move would save...
This, of course, would be a tiny drop in the bucket. But the announcement served a shrewd purpose. A major aim of President Johnson's cost-cutting drive was to impress the cost-conscious Congress. But whereas a Congressman may be all for money-saving in the abstract, it is quite a different matter when the proposal is to save money from his own state or district. Thus, upon hearing of McNamara's plans, there were the predictable yelps from almost all the affected Congressmen. They were heard by the folks at home, but would hardly sway Secretary...
...Only we can save ourselves," he told his people last week. "Nobody else can save us. In the past we have blamed the Englishman when anything went wrong. We said he was sucking our blood. Now the government is ours, and now you will blame Kenyatta. But you should know that Kenyatta, by himself, cannot give you anything. I urge you to work hard so that our Uhuru will be meaningful. From today on, our motto will be 'Uhuru na Kazl [Freedom and Work...
...murmuring river waters. Now it is the dawn Cairo express from Aswan thundering in my ears." In Nubia, polygamous husbands had separate houses for each wife; at Kom Ombo, a man's wives must share his house, and many husbands, dismayed by the prospect, have divorced all wives save one. But a man who risked keeping both his wives concedes that the arrangement has advantages. "Here I do not have to move from house to house. I go one night to one room, the next night to the other room. It spares the strength of my wives...
...merger is C. & O. President Walter Tuohy, who this week also becomes chairman of the B. & O. Tuohy, 62, an elfin onetime coal salesman who outmaneuvered New York Central President Alfred Perlman in persuading B. & O. stockholders to join with him instead of Central, plans to save $50 million annually by integrating operations. Seaboard President John W. Smith will run the new Seaboard Coastline Railroad, which hopes ultimately to save $38 million yearly, partly by eliminating 4,200 jobs along its frequently overlapping routes...