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...would be difficult not to be charmed by Bernardin Cardinal Gantin. Trim and tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and a youthful-looking 61, the churchman from the small West African country of Benin has emerged during the past 13 years as one of the most engaging personalities on the often austere Vatican staff. Ever ready to flash an infectious grin or pump a stranger's hand, he has even managed to upstage Pope John Paul: during a papal visit to Benin two years ago, it was Gantin who received the most rousing cheers from one welcoming crowd. John Paul...
...Dodger uniforms are a beautiful clean while with that special blue trim. Dodger Blue. Holmen, more than any park I have ever seen, integrates the crowd with the game. The neatly painted facility is nestled in a natural knoll. The weather is perfect. Almost 7,000 fans are on hand. There are no real dugouts, just a few wooden benches on either side of the field. The players spend the game talking with the regulars in the good seats. No fence in the outfield, just a hill on which the people gather to tan and watch a game...
Claims he can cut the current $200 billion deficits in half by 1989, even allowing for $30 billion worth of new programs. Would reduce military spending by at least $30 billion a year by then, trim $15 billion in annual health care and hospital costs, and save $10 billion through tighter management of farm programs. He would raise some $60 billion a year in new revenues by delaying the indexing of federal income taxes to inflation; capping Reagan's third-year, 10% tax cut at $1,100 for anyone with an income above $60,000 a year; placing...
...although pledges to the $ 350 million campaign have come readily, only about $75 million of what the Faculty expected will be paid off by June 30. The revised budget is due April 2, and the Faculty may have to trim services or borrow from the central administration to meet all of its expenses...
...longer consider the nuclear arms race to be an unfortunate fact of life," he writes. "We must be as objective, pragmatic, flexible and unafraid of change as the decision makers who simply stopped making the Edsel." It is still to be seen, however, whether business executives will become the trim tab Willens wants...