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...That's Negative!" When one of Poling's grandchildren asked him, "How does it feel to be old?" he replied, "How should I know?" He is fit and trim. Light brown eyes twinkle beneath great bushy eyebrows. Says he of his approach to life: "I have always had faith in God, and trust in Him. Daily I repeat to myself, 'I believe.' I could say, 'I doubt, I deny'-but that's negative. It's a tragedy that we should spend our living on the negative side...
...Cincinnati overhaul began last spring when Proudfoot, which had never before studied a newspaper operation, approached the Enquirer with a confident proposal to find and trim several hundred thousand dollars worth of waste effort. The prospect was warmly welcomed by Charles Staab, 60, the Enquirer's executive vice president and business manager, and something of a fat trimmer himself: eight years of Staab-inspired wow (for "Wipe Out Waste") campaigns have, among other-things, reduced the mail-room staff by introducing automation...
Marshall has rescued the company by automating to trim payroll costs from 69% of revenue to 57% last year, by closing unprofitable telegraph offices and by adding such new services as flower orders, wake-up calls and candy-by-wire in the 15,000 offices that remain. The company has made money every year since 1950, last year netted $16.8 million on $297 million in sales...
...first accurate statement he made during this campaign." Taking his place among the South's Governors, Burns, 52, a six-term may or of Jacksonville, will almost certainly prove to be one of the most colorful. A native Kentuckian, he is tall (6 ft. 2 in.), trim, and known as "Slick" because of his penchant for flashy clothes. Running for the nomination last spring, he found himself confronted by bloody race riots in Jacksonville. He overcame the potential political damage by appearing on statewide television to charge that the violence had been inspired by some of his Democratic opponents...
...estimated $1.1 billion this year, it still amounts to only 9% of the members' foreign commerce-a lower share than a decade ago. In an effort to bring about a genuine common market, the LAFTA delegates at Bogota will consider several proposals. One plan would trim all tariffs by 10% a year; a more popular proposal calls for 12% cuts by LAFTA's most advanced members (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico), ranging down to only 4% reductions by its least developed countries (Paraguay and Ecuador). Even with that, the less developed countries fear that their infant industries would be wiped...