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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...
Greater Evil. In Ventnor, N.J., the city's new curfew siren was silenced after parents complained that although it warned children off the streets at 9:45 p.m., it also woke the babies who had already been...
...Third Man. The argument began around 1935 when imperious, pint-sized David Robertson, boss of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,* woke up to a new fact of industrial life. Oil-burning diesel engines, which railroads were using in increasing numbers, were being operated with only one man, an engineer. A lot of firemen were going to be out of work. Robertson demanded that a fireman be put on every diesel (to tend no fires, but to make an occasional check in the engine room, keep an eye on gauges, and help the engineer look out the window...
...gone like the cattle that go over the hill and never come back." One night last week, Bill and Ophelia Simon began to pack blankets and Thermoses for a fishing trip. Jackin and Prowska became certain that the Simons were leaving to escape the secret police. Next morning, Prowska woke to find her husband gone. She stumbled into the garage and found his body, swinging from the rafters by the rope which had tied his bundle from Europe...
...foreign policy, Labor started with a blind bias toward Russia, but Attftfe and Bevin saw the menace of Russian aggression more quickly than President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes. It was Bevin's bearlike rush at the January 1946 U.N. meeting in London that woke the free world from its complacent friendliness to Russia. In this, Attlee and Bevin were a long way ahead of their party. Pro-Rursian sentiments among Laborites died slowly...