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...handy and often valid target for charges of mismanagement, waste and corruption. It has sometimes seemed to earn as much enmity as friendship for the U.S., and many Senators doubt that it has achieved its aims. Congress has often drastically reduced the foreign aid requests of Presidents, including a slash of one-third in President Johnson's fiscal 1964 request and 40% in his 1969 program. Cries for reform have grown louder. In voting against the bill last week. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urged a whole "new foreign aid concept," complaining that the program had become a "grab...
...SECRET blared the red cover slash on last week's issue of William F. Buckley's right-wing National Review. Below, in bold black letters: THE SECRET PAPERS THEY DIDN'T PUBLISH. Inside, spread over 14 pages, were memorandums "not published by the New York Times and the Washington Post, leaked to National Review." The memos were signed by, among others, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Admiral Arthur Radford, onetime chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...This prospect is not unpleasing to the state's Republicans, who are still smarting from Shapp's campaign oratory. They are also determined to trim his proposed $3.3 billion budget for fiscal year 1972. If he wants an alternative tax, they insist, he will have to slash his spending by some $200 million. They now have the upper hand because Shapp cannot rely on the Democrats to line up solidly once again behind his tax program. Many resent the fact that Shapp, a Democratic insurgent, has cracked down on patronage throughout the state...
...tall gray-haired man of distinguished appearance was browsing in a paperback bookstore. Balzac, Eliot, James, Kafka, Proust-all at once his eye lighted on a muscle-plated male glaring out of a black background. The slash, in big red letters, read...
Although his background in publishing is exceedingly modest, SerVaas believes that "all businesses are alike. Only the product or service varies," he says. "Most businesses do not fail; managers do. Business failures are management failures." His consistent formula for success is to fire the old management, slash the staff and pinch pennies. Once he became president of Curtis in May 1970, SerVaas went to work on Holiday. He shrank it to newsmagazine size, cut its frequency from twelve to nine issues a year, booted out Editor Caskie Stinnett, slashed the staff by two-thirds and started promoting tours. Beurt...