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...Mayor Wagner. Willis is also an exceedingly able administrator who oversees 552,000 pupils, 22,000 teachers and a $300 million annual budget with brisk efficiency. During his ten years in his post, he has recruited 6,000 additional teachers, nearly doubled the salary scale, added enough classrooms to trim the average class from 39 pupils to 32, and eliminated all double-shift instruction despite a school-age population explosion. He has planned and overseen a $250 million building program, completed without a single major scandal...
Mountain Retreat. Suntanned and crewcut, Maytag is a trim (175 Ibs.) six-footer with a calm, modulated voice and a quiet, determined air. He often works Saturdays, hates to give speeches (though he does), devotes most of his time to financial matters. A keen sportsman, he leaves his beachside house near Miami whenever possible for a 160-acre mountain retreat in Wyoming, where he is usually joined by his second wife and five children (four of them from her previous marriage; Maytag's first wife has the three children from the first Maytag marriage). A self-styled "free enterpriser...
...often than not, he stays home alone and goes to bed after an evening of television. His favorite show is Sing Along with Mitch, and Hilton explains: "I don't sing along, but I sometimes do a little dance." Very conscious of his appearance, he carefully stays a trim 171 Ibs., abhors fat men to the point where he does not even like to do business with them...
...Trim Sails. In 1957, after their children had grown up, Sean and Kathleen Lemass moved from their big old house in Dublin to an unpretentious seven-room bungalow in a pleasant suburb south of the capital, where the Prime Minister is picked up by a government car at 9:45 a.m. each day. He seldom returns until after dinner. Some years ago, Lemass cut down on golf and cards-to the relief of old poker cronies who usually wound up losers when Lemass played-to devote more time to the job. Sturdy (5 ft. 10 in.) and carefully groomed...
...cater to the expense-account trade seemed to be overjoyed. "It certainly doesn't do anything for me," grumped Broadway Producer David Merrick. The consensus was that the earlier, tougher proposals for cutbacks on deductions have frightened off many prospective spenders and have given companies an excuse to trim their entertainment budgets. "The major damage has already been done," says Fred Hayman, resident manager of the Beverly-Hilton Hotel. "As a result of the initial crackdown, many big corporations tightened the expenses of their employees, and they are not about to liberalize them again." If so, Caplin...