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...undoing began in 1944 with the rise of Dictator Juan Perón, who promised his lower-class descamisados (shirtless ones) steak on every plate and decreed meat prices as low as 6? a Ib. When the landowners opposed him, Per¶n ordered prohibitive land taxes, forcing the breakup of many ranches, decreed 60% wage boosts for workers, lured away cow hands by promising still higher wages in newly established industries. The most far-reaching legislation of all was an inheritance law that provided that each heir must get an equal share of the land, thus assuring the eventual...
...interlude between Senator Goldwater's acceptance speech and the formal end of the convention. Huntley said: "Senator Keating of New York seems to be leading the entire New York delegation in departing from the convention hall." CBS, at the same time, was accurately reporting the uneventful and orderly breakup of the crowd. Back on NBC, David Brinkley went on: "Three-fourths of the New York delegation has walked out." Outside the hall, Sander Vanocur then explained that Keating may have been miffed by Goldwater's line about " 'excess being no vice' "-misquoting Goldwater and misrepresenting Keating...
...anti-Goldwater sentiments, warmly welcomed Barry into his state, posed proudly with him, insisted that he couldn't pick a candidate until he saw what the G.O.P. platform had to say. What overriding problem did Romney want the Platform Committee to tackle first? Said Romney: "The breakup of family life, leading to increased juvenile delinquency and other social evils...
Actually, there had been two watersheds-the Civil War being the first. It was after the Civil War that industrial money-"brazen new money," as Edith Newbold Jones Wharton called it -began to change the face of New York. Wharton was the first American novelist to use the breakup of preindustrial American society as the stuff of fiction-Sinclair Lewis, in recognition of the fact, dedicated Babbitt to her-but she was in some ways the last to understand it. Her best pre-World War I novels (The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country) were groping toward...
Beauty Bounty. Nor is the change only skin-or even bikini-deep. Says Chief Editor F. W. Koebner of Elegante Welt, Germany's leading fashion and society magazine: "The breakup and reorganization of German society has given the individual German girl the material and psychological means to become beautiful." She has rejected her parents' ideals and escaped the self-sufficient autocracy that used to be family life in Germany. By contrast with her insular parents, she is worldly, well-traveled, avid for the fads and fashions of other nations. She has a new sense of identity and self...