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The budget office, es-
tablished by the Con-
gressional Budget Act of
1974, provides members
of Congress with basic
budget data.
Rivlin, who has re- .
ceived brickbats as well
as bouquets, will be
leaving the budget office
in coming months to re-
turn to the Brookings In-
stitution as its director
of economic studies.
But the Harvard-
trained economist has
agreed to stay on the Job
until Congress gets
through its first big
budget battle next year.
And that battle could be
bloodier than all previ-
passed to confess. “I went over about
five minutes before to be sure there
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rather elegant rose-col-
oped vase for placing
second in a 12-kilometer
race — in the 50 to 59
age class
"It's not known,” the
vaseholder, Alice M.
Rivlin, quipped, "wheth-
er there were more than
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niverary of the launch-
ing of Sputnik 1, the first
manmade satellite to or-
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The prince was supposed to arrive
at the West Lobby," said Muffle Bran-
don. the White House social secretary,
confident that enough time had
First Families, pay for their personal
entertaining, dry cleaning and laun-
dry. as well as for their own food,
which is stored in a separate pantry.
Although the First Family’s person-
al freedom is restricted - Harry Tru
man called the mansion "the great
white prison" - there are perks
galore A heated swimming pool, a
tennis court, a bowling alley, an ex-
ercise room, a beauty salon, a medi-
cal clinic, a movie theater and, of
course, limousines. Jetliners and heli-
copters.
The White House housekeeper, un-
like moat, cannot shop in just any
store Meats, produce and other food-
stuffs are purchased in bulk from
wholesalers who have been scruti-
nized by the Secret Service. Other
household items are purchased quiet-
ly at some of the city’s major depart-
ment stores.
"They call and place an order that
only certain people here are cleared
to handle, and an unmarked truck
picks it up," said a local meat whole-
saler's manager He requested ano-
nymity, explaining, "We were told by
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avoiding recommenda-
tions and proposed sev-
eral ways to bring down
the deficit.
Rivlin said Congress
must do three painful
things all at once —
scale back the defense
spending increase pro-
posed by President Rea-
gan, sharply trim the
growth of entitlement
programs like Medicare
and Social Security and
find new sources of reve-
nue
Specifically, she sug-
gested "a thorough re-
form of the income tax;
broaden the base and
bring down the marginal
rates." This would raise
a lot of money but would
have "a minimum im-
pact on savings, invest-
ment and economic
growth," she said.
For all the importance
of the job, Rivlin gets a
relatively modest salary
($59,500 a year) and
fewer perks than any
high administration offi-
W ASHINGTON - It was one of the" -gets its signals crossed, producing so-
best-kept secrets of the Kennedy ad-   cial glitches that would hearten:any
ministration, known only to the White  hostess who has bungled. Consider
House housekeeper and chef           what happened one rainy autumn
Jacqueline Kennedy saved Green  morning when Prince Charles of Brit-
Stamps.                              ain came calling on President Rea-
And why not?
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Miracle of birth felt
Rbert Bennet, whs is blind, uses his fingertips to "read" one
of the four models of the development of a human fetas at Chica-
can be spotted Jogging
along the CAO Canal
with friends and her dog.
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the security people not to publicize
the fact that we sell to the White
House. If you write about it some
crank is liable to come here and try to .
poison the food."
Anne Lincoln, the housekeeper un-
der President Kennedy, says she nev
er relied on a single wholesaler for a
particular item. “After a menu had
been approved," she recalled, “wheth-
er it was for a dinner for 20 or a re-
ception for 1,000, the chef would make
up a marketing list and we'd phone
around to see, for instance, where we
could find 100 baby lobsters. But we
couldn't Just buy anywhere. It had to .
be checked out by the Secret Ser-
vice."
Miss Lincoln also was in charge of
Mrs. Kennedy's box of Green Stamps
"I don't know where Mrs. Kennedy .
heard about Green Stamps," Miss Lin- ,
coin said with a laugh, "but she want-
ed to know where they all went. She
was furnishing Atoka, their Virginia
place, and she thought perhaps she
could use Green Stamps."
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — It started as an United Way America in San Francisco, which in 1981
eleventh hour scramble to save Colorado's peregrine raised $1 6 billion for its cornucopia of projects,
falcon. Four years later, what some call a gimmick There's cause for Bent's interest. Federal funding
has swept into 21 states and is taking the fund rais- cuts have sent non-profit groups searching for new
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house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Wha t is more, the White House budg-
et, Just like other household budgets,
is climbing steadily. Next year, ac-
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makes the budget and
economic policy deci-
sions that affect millions
MONEY MARKET THRIFT CERTIFI-
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MINIMUM OF SIX MONTHS.
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There are no service charges but Money Mar-
ket Thein Certiticates are subject to existing
penalties for earty withdrawal1
of Americans
And, in a city where
information is power.
Rivlin's agency has be-
come a force to be reck-
oned with.
; "She has brought the
CBO from nothing to a
solid, non-partisan or-
ganization that is essen-
tial for the budget pro-
cess," said Robert Reis
chauer, Rivlin's former
deputy who is now with
the Urban Institute "Be-
fore there was a CBO, no
individual member of
I Congress could hope to
two runners in the -                        have a really independ-
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Jj there are tew people new institution in the the administration was ousiones, as Congress
I* Rivlins running clans, government:            offering                  gropes toslashadefci
there are no others in   5                          - "New, the expertise of  that could hit $175 Dl
her Job category. As the Under her direction, Congress is equal to that lion In fiscal 1984 unless
only director the Con-  the budget office has be-   of the, executive  there are big new spend
gressional Budget Office  come the primary   branch, ’ -he said. “The
has had in its nearly  source of Independent, ’ administration has to be
eight-year history, Riv-  oon-partisan informa-
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the celestial wanderer in  that means they're going  expedition to the surface
1986 -                    to attempt a rendezvous  of Mars?
a Expand and deepen with Phobos (a moon of if the Soviets fly it
Soviet abilities to ex-   Mars), or take up an or-  out to Mars Bruman
plore space - from ex   bit around the planet  answered, bring it back
tending the time humans  similar to that moon's  to Earth and they try to
can stay and work in   orbit, or it's just simply  recover it here on Earth,
space to building bigger  a name is anyone's  that would be a pretty
booster rockets to vastly   guess right now.           good sign that itis (such
Improve deep space The Soviet investiga- a pathfinder probe),
tracking stations - and tion of Mars has been in Such a manned adven
thus undertake a series limbo since 1973, when a ture would require a to
of both unmanned and series of spacecraft tally new set of equip-
manned voyages to oth- Mars 4, Mars 5. Mars 6 meat, from rocket boost-
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manned spacecraft that The project is sup- gram.                   automated versions of
posedly called Phobos Might that mission be systems to be flown
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ATA Avo I Anq-pAcc "We needed a gimmick," said his assistant, Patsy
36 V IUC I til W_" II,I 333 Goodman "There are so many good causes and no ,
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cial — no limousine or ington by train). She was widely publicized and highly applauded, Colora-
private kitchen, not even divorced in 1977 after a do‘s non-game program has been mimicked by 20
an executive washroom 22-year marriage and other states. A spot check shows similar success in
The entire staff calls her has three children. raising donations
by her first name, al- Rivlin said scattered Not all, though, has proved easy money, and not
though a friend de-   criticisms of her have  everyone is pleased
scribes her as "a rela-   nothing to do with her    Torres’ success, ironically, has forced him to
tively shy person "         leaving the budget of-  hound the state legislature to prevent it from cut-
The 5-foot-2, 51-year-   (ice. "I came in to build  ting his general revenue funds or even withholding
old Rivlin spends many   an organization that had  the donations. "They've got control over the re
of her off hours outdoors   credibility on the Hill,"  funds," he said, “and they can do what they wish
— jogging, cross-coun-   she said. "Ive done that.    The $27,636 collected this year for expanding the
try skiing and hiking   and it’s time to do some-  Little Rock arena was "disappointing," said state (
(she once walked nearly   thing else. It's good to Commissioner of Revenue Charles Ragland A pub-
50 miles by herself to   move on while you're  licity campaign is needed to make the refund work,
Harper's Ferry, W Va , still enjoying the Job " he said
later returning to Wash- Lo.angetTime
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; ing will approach $4 million. . were flowers and all Wasin readiness
reaDenee,rpor mpusloe senot,ustea She racedover t’Vice President
. more than 15 million tourists and of-   Bush s office and borrowed some of
ficial visitors trooping through each   his flowers. Then a somewhat
year. To keep things spotless and run- bemused Secret Service agent to
lining smoothly takes a staff of 86 her the prince was arriving at the
j ushers, butlers, maids, doormen, North Portico instead of t
'■ chefs, carpenters, plumbers, electri- LobDY:
clans, launderers, engineers and Bo- she dashed to the North Portico. No
rists.. pripce.
But even in the best-run households, "By this time," Mrs. Brandon said,
no matter how large the staff, all does "it was literally two minutes before
not happen with seamless dispatch. the prince's arrival. I ran down to the
- The White House staff occasionally Diplomatic Reception Room en-
trance. The rug was rolled up, two book about his 28 years on the man-
men were mopping the floor and the sion staff
prince's car was literally coming up -When a new family comes in," he
the driveway. We slammed on the said, "they have their own ideas
lights, threw a Bower arrangement on about how to do things. Bet then they
the table and the two moppers and.   find out eventually that it is better to
ended up in the broomchoset in the   do it the way it's always been done "
Lower West Lobby as the prince was
escorted serenely by "                    For some presidential couples, he
added, there was a bit of a culture
Once on the mansion staff. White shock in suddenly being surrounded
House employees tend to stay on the by household help The Trumans, for
job. They like the glamour, the sense example, had lived in a small apart-
of service to the nation and the insid- ment.
ersuperspecttyBut wtheyoutsidom "But' think the biggest adjustment
share.thatpespety outsdens for any presidential couple, no matter
until they have re                       how much they have been in the pub-
Rex W Scouten, the chief usher. Ik eye before, is the loss of privacy."
who has been on the staff for 25 years, said West The only privacy you have
is in charge of the 86 other employ- in the White House is when you close
ees Any glitches during the Reagan thebedroomdeer
years? "ve scoured my mind "he Four maids and five butlers, head-
sad, and I cant come up with a ed by John Ficklin, the maitre d'hotel
thing:                                   who has been on the staff for 38 years.
J.B. West, a retired chief usher, be-   work directly for the First Family,
gan his White House service with the   whose living quarters consist of about
Franklin Roosevelts and ended with   25 rooms on the second and third
the Richard Nixons. He then wrote a   floors The Reagans, like all other
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unhunted animals usually neglected by sport-orient- everyone's pursestrings. Burgeoning unemployment
ed state agencies                             -      rolls in the Midwest and Northeast, for instance.
Increasingly, however, the champions of other might cause United Way's total collections to drop
causes are stepping up to cash in on the deal:          this year, Beni fears
— in Oregon, taxpayers can send refund dollars to What that spells for fund-raisers is a desperate
— either the state’s non-game program or theOregon           sharpen skills and be alert for new tech
1 1 Arts Commission, which this year collected $130,000 n
1 toneipouruamuseuporandanbmaysanhveanex. were very pleased.Ht’s beenall weiverhad." said
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Fund raisers large and small are catching on        Wildlife.                                             4
"It seems like a pretty painless way for someone since the checkoffs birth in 1978, Colorado tax
to give," said Eric Wolfe, director of the Denver- payers have donated $2 9 million This year 12 4 per
based Colorado Open Space Council, which last year cent of the 994.573 taxpayers getting a refund donat-
used more conventional means to raise $120,000 for ed an average of $5.60 to the fund, for a total collec-
Its environmental work.                               tion of $692,000.
go's Museum of Scienee and Industry recently. The exhibit uses "I sure wouldn't rule it out. We'd consider any- For Torres, it's meant the opportunity to re-estab-
cassette tapes and braille to explain the miracle ef birth.           thing," said Bill Bent, regional vice president of lish nine breeding pairs of falcons, 70 river otters
previously extinct in the state and other endangered
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