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...scale reductions : defense. The smaller defense budget was made possible by Eisenhower's "new look" military program (see below), based on air-atomic power. In nondefense opera tions with flexible costs, which get only 10% of the budget, most of the reductions were the result of hard-bitten econ omy in operations. Some heralded the transfer of certain responsibilities to local governments, or to private enterprise, e.g., rural electrification was cut in the belief that private utilities can now do the job. For all of these nondefense opera tions where costs are not fixed, the President's proposed...
According to a 1945 presidential decree, all Argentine restaurants, even such famed luxury resorts as the grill rooms at the Plaza and the Alvear Palace Hotels in Buenos Aires, are required to list and serve the menú econímico. This 32? meal typically consists of uninspired soup, a snarl of spaghetti, nondescript fish and a tired banana...
...hear the odious order, waiters snatch the tablecloth from the table and the napkin from the diner's lap. The table is set with chipped crockery and kitchen silverware. Then, aiming at the kitchen and rearing back, a waiter bellows at the top of his voice: "Menú econímico for one!" That attracts the attention of everyone in the dining room. Trying to ignore the snobbish glances from other diners and the sneers of waiters, the customer bolts the food. If he tries to make amends by leaving a tip, the waiter gives him the final...
...days of the treatment may be numbered. Last week the dutiful Peronista press took up the cudgels for the menú ecnímico, warning waiters that any more such sabotage of the restaurant law could mean big trouble. La Epoca insisted: "The cry, 'Menú econímico for one!' must never again be heard . . . How would a waiter feel if he went into a shoe store and the clerk shouted: 'A pair of cheap shoes...
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