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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...
Children usually find orthodontics* easier than do adults, as their growing bones are more malleable. What many adults suffer from is the tendency of teeth to shift after a few have been removed because of decay. The shift changes the bite, and this in turn may lead to erosion of bone as far back as the hinge of the jaw. Just as damaging in the long run, is the weakening of the gums that results from a bad bite. Far more adult teeth are lost to gum and bone disease than to decay, dentists...
...four hours the doctors worked, cleaning the wounds, removing bone splinters from the Governor's chest cavity, stitching a hole in one lung, treating the wounds in his thigh and wrist. At week's end doctors said his condition was satisfactory...
...authorization is only half the struggle. After that, the Congress must approve the actual appropriations. For years Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's foreign operations subcommittee, has been trying to cut foreign aid to the barest bone. But in the climate of the 1963 Congress, Passman seems likelier than ever to have his way. And what does he say? He says: "Anything over $2.7 billion would be a waste of money...
...sacred ground of a Utah mesa. In the darkness it faced east where the red morning sun would rise. As the first rays of the new sun fell upon them, the Indians dusted the sunlight over their bodies with eagle feathers and blew on shrill whistles carved of eagle bone...