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...hold camouflage of leaves or branches. At his side lay a 7.62-mm. Russian rifle, roughly similar to the U.S. Springfield; he had a Russian potato-masher hand grenade stuck in his belt; his conical Russian helmet lay in the ditch beside his rifle. The dead man's pack contained a glob of soggy rice, freshly cooked and wrapped in a dirty blue cloth, a shovel, a tin cup and a spoon; he had no first-aid kit, no ammunition belt (he carried his bullets loose in his pocket), and no canteen. His shoes were Korean-made rubber sneakers...
Argentines woke up one morning last week to find that, overnight, second-grade beef had shot up from 5 to 8 pesos a kilo, cigarettes from 1 peso to 1.50 for a pack of ten, cheap rum from 11 to 16 a bottle.* The rocketing prices were the result of a major overhaul of the nation's economy by the members of Argentina's Economic Council, known to Buenos Aires' harried financial community as Los Muchachos (The Boys). While observers both in Argentina and Washington thought the new measures might be sound in principle, Los Muchachos...
...years. Many brokers thought it was caused by too much federal regulation, and felt that a New Dealer like Schram could ease the controls. Schram was convinced that the public, still remembering the '29 crash, had to be sold the idea that Wall Streeters were not a pack of wolves who lived on lambs...
...gentleman in England, then becomes a real valet masquerading in the Wild West as a British earl. He caricatures snobbery and braggadocio, unfailingly spills tea trays all over an English hostess, unwittingly courts death at the hands of a cowboy villain (Bruce Cabot) and becomes the prey of a pack of mongrels drafted for a sagebrush foxhunt...
...first time in ten years, American cigarettes were officially on sale in Paris last week. After about a year of negotiations, SEITA, the French government tobacco monopoly, made an agreement to import Camels (R. J. Reynolds) and Old Golds (P. Lorillard), pegged the price at 150 francs a pack, or about...