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...said some unpleasant things about the singing talent of his daughter Margaret ("my baby"), he dashed off a letter which said, in part: "I have just finished reading your lousy review. I never met you, but if I do you'll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps a supporter below...
Inflation has sent the cost of living soaring by nearly 5% since January. Beefsteak sells for $2 a pound, eggs 90? a dozen, cigarettes $1 a pack, and whisky $11 a fifth. Waiting lists for housing are years long. Taxes are sky-high and inching still higher; an across-the-board sales tax covering everything from food to services will rise by a third to a dizzying 16.5% next January. The once pristine countryside is being polluted, jobs are disappearing because of mechanization and there is a growing law-and-order problem...
...stories enhanced Shaw too, offering witty cracks about himself, which he attributed to his contemporaries. One was supposedly by Oscar Wilde: "He has not an enemy in the world; and none of his friends like him." Another was attributed to his platonic lover, Mrs. Pat Campbell: "Give Shaw a beefsteak and no woman in London will be safe...
...growing problems have created a new restlessness among Argentina's people. Not even the country's few bargains-3? subway rides, 1½ pay phones, 300-per-lb. beefsteak-have been able to ease the feelings of frustration and disquiet. The middle class grumbles constantly about soaring prices, which seem to hit it hardest. The lower classes are slightly better off, mainly because Onganía, who started out as a union buster, has turned kindly toward the unions and consults with them regularly in an effort to win some kind of popular support. "Ongan...
...Britain's postwar Labor Government: "Queuetopia." And President Harry Truman, in December 1950, writing to the music critic who had panned his daughter Margaret's singing: "Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below...