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...grubby Carter headquarters on 14th and K streets, Strauss inherits a campaign seriously short of cash: almost all of the $2 million raised so far has been spent. Indeed the committee has been in some danger of missing its next payroll. Strauss named Lee Kling, 40, a veteran Democratic operator, as campaign treasurer, and together the two hope to raise $3 million by the end of the year...
...Kling, president of Landmark Bancshares of Missouri, who used to work with U.S. Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss, helped raise money for the gala. Acting on White House authority, he persuaded at least 13 companies and banks (including Xerox, Bank of America and Chase Manhattan Bank) to ante up 5,000 tax-deductible dollars apiece. The White House did not say how much it raised for the dinner, which cost more than $80,000. Anything extra would come out of the State Department's entertainment budget. When questions were raised about the propriety of soliciting private cash, the White House...
...prices actually dropped a trifle in August-President Carter and his economic advisers are under no illusion that they can claim any credit. Quite the contrary: consumer prices for the year are likely to rise 8% or even more, and the Administration is feeling public fury. As S. Lee Kling, chief deputy to Anti-Inflation Czar Robert Strauss, told fellow policymakers on returning from a trip, "You guys wouldn't believe what's happening out there. They're barely polite to me in St. Louis. They're throwing eggs at me in Atlanta. People are really...
...word of caution. Isotoner suits should be worn with a bra, Aris' Barbara Kling concedes, and for good reason: "Without a bra for women with a large bosom, Isotoner will flatten the bust. For women with small breasts, it will flatten the area completely...
...Arts and Educational Council of Greater St. Louis may lack an acronym (AECOGSL being plainly impossible), but the council, representing nine different cultural and educational organizations, put on the most imaginative auction to date. The scene was a basement cafeteria in the new Monsanto Co. headquarters designed by Vincent Kling; the basement's rugged concrete walls were turned into a castle keep by the addition of bright banners, shields and coats of arms. The theme of the auction was Camelot. Up for bids were dozens of items calculated to tempt the fantasies of the 800 patrons, who paid...