Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jacobs has owned the store for 23 years, spending his day supervising the buying and selling and occasionally helping a student work the Xerox. After a day at work, Jacobs takes a short swim at the club near his Brookline home--he is remarkably trim for his 55 years...
...longest Cabinet crises (65 days) in Belgian history, the coalition of 15 Christian Socialists and twelve Socialists has been unable to agree on how to deal with the doctors. Harmel's Christian Socialists favor a lenient stand toward the physicians, while the Socialists would like to trim the doctors down to size. Remembering that the last doctors' strike lasted 18 days and ended in a retreat by both sides, Harmel decided to quit before the fighting even began, and submitted his resignation to King Baudouin. That pleased the doctors, who declared that they would not strike...
...manufacturers. One reason: in a little-noted change of vast consequence, cost-conscious Robert McNamara has switched Pentagon buying away from lax, cost-plus contracts toward fixed-price, incentive awards. Increasingly, defense contractors must sharpen both their engineering and their bids to win business. Efficient operators who trim costs or beat delivery schedules are rewarded with higher profits; fumblers are being winnowed out. Says Northrop Chairman Tom Jones: "It's a sporty course...
Reprieved & Relieved. To perform the major surgery that the Baltimore department needs, Governor J. Millard Tawes last week appointed State Adjutant General George M. Gelston, 53, who commanded Maryland's National Guard during the Cambridge race riots of 1963 and 1964. Gelston, a trim, crew-cut six-footer who won plaudits from both whites and Negroes for his fair, imperturbable handling of a potentially bloody conflict, plans a major reorganization, including such reforms as an inspector general to hear complaints from the ranks, stiffer recruitment standards, and more Negro cops...
Salty could almost certainly have won another term in November. Though at 73 he is still as trim as the sloop he sails on Maine's Penobscot Bay, he decided that he might not be able to serve another six years with all the "zeal, ability and conscientiousness" he demanded of himself. A onetime hockey player and junior varsity oarsman, he returned in 1964 to Britain's Henley Regatta with other hale members of the Harvard '14 crew that had won the Grand Challenge Cup 50 years earlier. Asked by a young newsman last week...