Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long-running performance had left him "bushed and broke." AID, by contrast, is in surprisingly good shape. In the face of persistent Congressional assaults on the program, Bell, a Harvard-trained economist who was summoned to Washington in 1961 as President Kennedy's first budget director, helped trim the fat by rejecting the notion of aid as "a worldwide welfare program" and insisting on "self-help...
...about in time to reach the House gym soon after its early morning opening, spending 15 minutes in the pool or working out at paddleball or handball. If he can find a partner, he plays tennis, but he may soon run out of partners; in excellent trim (he weighs 175 Ibs., claims to be 5 ft. 10 in. tall, but appears to be at least an inch shorter than that), he is a tough, agile player who gives no quarter. Saunaed, showered and stretched, Javits slides into his dark beige Mustang convertible (license plate MBJ-1 for his wife...
Lately, prosperity has begun to trim profit margins. Wages for the Gli Insabbiati are gradually rising; an Italian engineer abroad earns about $10,000 yearly in wages and fringes, a truck driver about $5,000. Moving beyond Africa also means higher costs for employers. Not the least of the problems is that the contractors stand to lose many of the hard-working desert veterans, who have a habit of settling where the job takes them. Cogefar, another Milan company, is about to begin a $56 million tunnel-boring job for a hydroelectric plant on New Zealand's Tongariro River...
...drive on the Cadillac Eldorado. Chrysler is discontinuing Imperial as a separate line, will make it a more expensive Chrysler with extra decor and equipment. Ford for the first time will bring out four-door Thunderbirds. Pontiac's grille has been given a cat-whisker effect, with metal trim above the headlights suggesting flaring eyebrows. Detroit insiders have a name for the car: Batmobile...
...socialite and sportsman than as an industrialist. Though he owns a dozen companies with combined sales of $20 million a year, Evans has left their affairs mostly to underlings, concentrated on such hobbies as golf, quail hunting, and designing and racing a 300 m.p.h. jet-powered hydroplane. Trim, Florida-tanned and handsome, Evans not only looks like a TV idol of 50-ten years younger than his age-but is groomed for the part, from manicured fingernails to the tasseled bows on his moccasins...