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...companions," wrote Martin, were "Fatigue, Hunger and Cold"; men ate birch bark, old shoes, pet dogs. "We kept a continual Lent as faithfully as ever any of the most rigorous of the Roman Catholics did and, depend upon it, we were sufficiently mortified." Yet given a small ration of beef and flour and a sack of straw, Martin and his colleagues "felt as happy as any other pigs that were no better off than ourselves." Such wit eased Martin's suffering, but he also had a sharp eye for the ironic moment or the dramatic scene. He describes General...
Last Tuesday's Committee meeting, Atkinson, college dietician, that the great deal of food which waste contributes significantly board rates. If wastage could be the dining halls could afford equivalent of two more roast beef each week, Miss Atkinson said...
Unlikely Leader. Upheavals are not rare in Latin America, but the time and place of this one caught almost everyone by surprise. It took place in what is perhaps the most economically advanced nation on the continent-a rich land of spreading pampas, beef and grain, in which no Gaucho or laborer needs to go hungry. It is a land whose 20 million people, mostly of European immigrant descent, consider themselves infinitely superior to the citizens of neighboring Latin countries. It is urban and modern: one-third of the nation live within the capital city of Buenos Aires, a Parisian...
...catastrophic events brought Per&243;n's downfall. Evita died of cancer.* In his bereavement, Per&243;n found solace in teen-age girls. The wheat, meat and money gave out. Per&243;n had made it so unprofitable to raise cattle and grain that bread and beef were in short supply. He dickered desperately for a $125 million loan from the U.S., violated the nationalism that he himself had urged by trying to swing a deal with Standard Oil of California to exploit Argentine...
...meatless" days a week, imposed during the declining days of the Perón era, were reimposed-though "meat" in this case meant beef, and Argentines were free to put away as much lamb and mutton as they could hold. But prices did climb (steak went from 8? to 19? per lb., bread from 2? to 4? per lb.), and the memory of high living in the days of Per&243;n died hard. Frondizi next outraged the nationalists by allowing foreign private companies to develop Argentine petroleum reserves.. He launched campaigns to denationalize steel and to increase electric...