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...absurd projects-though too much is. Money is being spent on programs that, by comparison with priority needs, are secondary or of relatively minor importance. Someone is always hurt when a program is cut, but given the need, both the President and Congress could buck the political pressures to trim them this year...
...Trim and lithe, her rich brown hair flowing over her shoulders, America's only working queen strides the hilly lanes of her capital, Gangtok. As she passes by, the Sikkimese smile, nod and stop to chat, all formality forgotten. Hope Cooke, the shy Sarah Lawrence student married five years to the King of Sikkim, finds herself very much at home in the tiny Himalayan country. "The mountains," she says, "give me such a secure feeling. I don't feel vulnerable here...
...days - or, failing such luck, one of the most arresting names to drop - is Gloria Steinem. Writers, politicians, editors, publishers and tuned-in businessmen are all intensely curious about her. Gloria is not only a successful freelance writer and contributing editor of New York magazine; she is also a trim, undeniably female, blonde-streaked brunette who has been described as "the thinking man's Jean Shrimpton." She does something for her soft suits and clinging dresses, has legs worthy of her miniskirts, and a brain that keeps conversation lively with out getting tricky...
...year or more, can indeed be rugged competitors. Even so, the company's top management is known to take a somewhat protective attitude toward competition. IBM makes such profits (last year it earned $651 million after taxes on revenues of $5.3 billion) that it could trim prices and still do well. But IBM knows only too well that a general computer price cut might drive some smaller competitors to the wall. IBM is also sensitive about its size, and about the fact that the Justice Department has long had it under examination. Beginning in January, Tom Watson...
...Music to Trim the Tree...