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...This prospect is not unpleasing to the state's Republicans, who are still smarting from Shapp's campaign oratory. They are also determined to trim his proposed $3.3 billion budget for fiscal year 1972. If he wants an alternative tax, they insist, he will have to slash his spending by some $200 million. They now have the upper hand because Shapp cannot rely on the Democrats to line up solidly once again behind his tax program. Many resent the fact that Shapp, a Democratic insurgent, has cracked down on patronage throughout the state...
...spends fewer than one-third of his working days in his Hong Kong office. More often he can be found in or en route to shipping capitals on three continents. He nonetheless finds time to keep his 5-ft. 8-in. frame down to a trim 160 Ibs. with ritualistic daily swims. Pao is also an avid golfer, keeping a set of clubs in each of the three cities he visits most frequently, Tokyo, London and New York (three of his four daughters attend school in the U.S.). His wife never travels with him on business. Indeed, she is rarely...
Beneath the patina of the published papers, other images form from those turbulent days. Early on, there was the alert, trim Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara sitting at his huge Pershing desk, the believer of 1963, the man who thought it could be done and who kept saying "Things are getting better." Then, gray and pinched in 1967, trying to explain why he had become the first to turn publicly against the war. There was his tall, taut Assistant Secretary, John McNaughton, now dead, sweeping confident eyes across the map of the world and talking fast, very fast. Speaking ever...
...talks of "beginning to trim the job to manageable dimensions"; his conception of his role in modernizing the University is "trying to influence the agenda." Already it is apparent that his primary concerns are academic. One of his highest priorities is achieving-and maintaining-contact with the student body...
...Carlo was a lifetime lira-pincher who often rode the trains third class and packed his own lunch, Anna lives the life of an empress after work. She maintains an 11th century palace, a hunting lodge and a sumptuous apartment, all crammed with priceless paintings. She keeps her figure trim, dresses elegantly, and entertains salons full of jet-setters and visiting royalty...