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...round of applause that lasted for nearly two minutes. As the President stood on the podium, he looked healthier than he had in many a month. His hair was a bit thinner and greyer, but an expensively tailored suit and a specially cut shirt collar helped give him a trim look. His manner was that of a man who had made up his mind to ignore outrageous slings and arrows and concentrate on the duties before...
...funds were being doled out for. "The time has come," he said, "to run a check to see if all the services government provides were in answer to demands or were just goodies dreamed up for our supposed betterment." He promised that his administration would "squeeze and cut and trim" government costs, partially through a reorganization of agencies, until "we will build those things we need to make our state a better place in which to live-and we will enjoy them more, knowing we can afford them and they are paid...
...products and processes. When a Frankfurt businessman rises in the morning, he may well reach for a Gillette razor blade, Colgate toothpaste, and hair lotion that comes in a bottle made by an Owens-Illinois subsidiary. After he downs his Maxwell instant coffee with Libby condensed milk, his wife, trim in her Lycra stretch bra, kisses him goodbye, leaving only a trace of Revlon lipstick. In his Ford Taunus, or G.M. Opel, fueled with Esso gasoline, he drives to an office equipped with Remington typewriters, ITT telex machines and IBM computers. While his wife runs a Hoover vacuum cleaner...
...bring it up to date, the Bushmaster will sport more powerful engines, enlarged cockpit windows, a lighter and stronger aluminum-alloy skin, a foot-operated hydraulic replacement of the old Tri-Motor's hand-operated "Johnny Brake," a larger stabilizer and a dorsal fin to reduce yaw, modern trim tabs, and interior rather than exterior control cables...
True, walls slanted like adobe slabs, windows were kept to narrow slits and the roof was flat. But Architect Kruger had proposed making a trim, circular building that resembled a massive beveled cogwheel. To historical buffs, it looked altogether too modern...