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Hello, Joe. Starting off with new Treasury Secretary Henry ("Joe") Fowler, who was attending his first official Cabinet meeting, Busby called for round-the-room recitations. Fowler's contribution was that "considerable improvements have been detected in a preliminary way" in efforts to trim the balance-of-payments deficit. However, he added hastily, "it is too soon to make any predictions" about reductions in the first quarter of 1965. His piece said, Fowler slipped from the room...
Rigid Auditing. A longtime Providence banker who was brought into Textron by Founder Royal Little in 1954 as Little's heir apparent, taciturn, trim-waisted Rupe Thompson runs his far-flung company with a staff of only 83 people on one floor of a Providence office building. He allows his divisions to operate almost autonomously, much as at General Motors, a corporation that Thompson has studied minutely and admires mightily. His staff coordinates the company's affairs, channels profits where needed. "I'm all for delegating responsibility," says Thompson, "but I also ask for accountability." That takes...
...Rebekah Harkness is a trim strawberry blonde and mother of three. She rises each morning at dawn, pulls on a pair of tights and spends two hours taking private ballet lessons. "I must do it myself," she explains, "or else I'd just sit back and write out checks...
...European Free Trade Association partners at EFTA's conference of ministers in Geneva; the partners have been complaining loudly against the 15% surcharge, may issue an ultimatum that Britain either drop it or get out of EFTA. Though British financial leaders had been hoping for a 5% trim in the surcharge this month, they are now talking about a 2½% reduction to take effect in April...
After that crisis, Wife amiably describes how a fighting-trim bachelor becomes a fat, happy benedict. Lemmon's lady smothers him with love and stuffs him with pasta until he has rings under his eyes and a bulge over his belt. Dragging his paunch through the men's-club swimming pool, he makes the mere act of floating seem a wry comment on the leaden responsibilities of marriage. Even Bash Brannigan evolves into a folksy domestic series called The Brannigans. Finally, Lemmon rebels. Both he and Bash decide to dispose of their mates by dumping them (Brrrp! Blasp...