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...official business. Finally, he drove his own car and arrived half an hour late because he had trouble finding a parking place. Carter's limousine policy will save the Government only $12,000 a year in car-rental fees, but was a potent token of his determination to trim needless expenses and run a down-to-earth Administration. In a similar vein, the President is considering getting rid of some of the 29 presidential planes and mothballing the presidential yacht Sequoia...
...have their own fiscal 1978 budget prepared to submit to Congress. Without having to worry about the budget totals, they are free to concentrate on specific areas where they can take issue with Ford. He requests a sizable $12.9 billion jump in defense spending, to $123.1 billion. Carter can trim $5 billion or more from the total-as he pledged in the campaign -without upsetting many Pentagon plans...
...family to Manhattan. There he is shuttled by chauffeured Cadillac from his Star office to Dolly Schiff's old suite at the Post to his twelve-room Fifth Avenue duplex, which is crowded with English antiques and modern Australian art. At a restored colonial farmhouse upstate, Rupert keeps trim by riding, skiing, swimming (40 laps in his pool) and thrashing around on a tennis court. He once challenged a group of his editors to play him, without their tennis shoes. "We have an old-fashioned marriage," says Anna, who is studying for a bachelor's degree at New York...
...problem, however, proved obdurate: Brando's weight. Instead of looking like a Green Beret commander, trim and tough, Brando, who was paid $2 million, panted through the paddies like Sidney Greenstreet vainly looking for the way to Rick's Bar. Coppola's solution was to film only Brando's face and hands in closeup and to use a suitably slim, 6-ft. 5-in. double for long shots. Even Coppola's inventiveness had no remedies, however, for the two typhoons that ripped up his sets...
Short-Term Concern. A few liberal economists are worried that there may be slightly too much good news. More smidgens of improvement between now and Inauguration Day may cause Jimmy Carter to trim the program of tax cuts and Government spending increases, possibly resulting in a smaller boost for the economy than they think it needs. Carter told reporters last week that the economy looks better to him than it did a month ago, but left his plans vague...