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...board-meeting minutes-have lasting value, Leahy reckons. The rest can be discarded periodically so long as the owner observes a complexity of 1,000 regulations laid down by the Federal Government. Armed with these regulations-and a psychologist's understanding of corporate mentalities-Leahy's teams weed with ruthless skill, often removing as much as 70% of a company's records. The higher an executive the more of his records Leahy retains, on the principle that even insignificant slips of paper may be important to a top man. A piece of out-of-town hotel stationery...
Above all else, President Johnson worked at projecting a cost-cutting, budget-minded, fiscally responsible picture. Three times in one week, he ordered department heads to review money requests for next year's budget, cut them to the bone. He demanded that Cabinet members weed out nonessential staffers. "In short," he said, "I want you to give as much attention to management as you do to your programs. . . I intend to disapprove any budget request for more personnel except where the facts leave me no choice...
...plain old marijuana. Cambridge does not have a drug problem. It does, however, harbor a very small sub-culture that regards cannabis as little less than a necessity. These people are not addicts, because marijuana, or "pot" as it is better known by devotees and would-be hipsters ("weed," "grass" and less printable names are also used), does not cause addiction. Still, a few local residents would agree with the young man who declared passionately. "I love...
...reached for a success similar to that of the late Alicia Patterson's Newsday (circ. 373,587), which caters to Long Island suburbanites. He brought in a task force of bright, energetic newsmen, increased the news staff to 50, and boosted salaries. From Minneapolis came Promotion Manager Robert Weed as publisher and Assistant City Editor Ed Goodpaster as managing editor. "Cowles couldn't be expected to run a schlock operation here," says Weed. "This had to look like something...
...more he watched the clumsy, black-and-white wood stork as it fished in the muddy Florida swamp, the more vacationing Zoologist Marvin Philip Kahl Jr. was puzzled. As the big bird slogged awkwardly through the murky, weed-choked water, its long, curved beak dangling half open, it was hardly the picture of a successful predator. Yet it was snagging a fish every couple of seconds. How was it spotting its prey...