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...Formal, Frugal. The President of Argentina is stiff, shy, occasionally gloomy, gravely formal, sparing of speech. He is a professional soldier, a graduate of Argentina's Prussian-style Military Academy. He is not one of the generals Perón used to corrupt with favors, and he lives frugally and simply. "I don't like social affairs," says Aramburu. "Never did. I am one of those men who do not fear to be alone." His only hobby, dropped for now, is attending auctions of household goods with his wife Sara-and they have never had enough money...
...leader: sly, stubborn Stuttgart Lawyer Reinhold Maier, 67. Taking over from tactless Thomas Dehler, whose head-down charges in futile quest of East-West unity ("we must take , the Russians at their word") have scared off many followers, Maier is an old-style anticlerical German "liberal," paunchy, frugal and folksy. He is a Swabian who likes nothing ,better than to walk the Württemberg slopes in clodhopper shoes, Lederhosen and hairy loden-cloth jacket, stopping now and again to exchange light-heavyweight jokes with farmers...
Although his work has made him moderately prosperous in recent years (his oils bring about $6,000 each), Hopper and his wife live an astonishingly frugal life. Their Washington Square apartment is a fourth-floor walkup, 74 tiring steps above the street. It is heated by a potbellied stove, with coal hauled up in a dumbwaiter...
Banker William Rose of Ellenville, N.Y., third-generation president of Ellenville's Home National Bank (capital: $807,000), seemed the very model of a progressive small-town banker. A frugal, prosperous bachelor of 50 who daily carried his lunch -a cold fried-egg sandwich and a Thermos of iced tea-to the bank in a wicker bas ket, he was a tireless dabbler in civil affairs. He led the movement for the summertime Empire State Music Festival that attracted thousands of culture seekers and dollars to Ellenville, was a district president in 1953 of the State Bankers Association, head...
...year he halfheartedly studied physics at the University of Stockholm, then transferred to the Geophysical Institute in Bergen. Bergen had something special to offer: the great Professor Bjerknes, whom Rossby remembers as "a man with a bushel of hair, a remote interest in his students and a frugal way with his family." Soon Rossby was living in the professor's house and planning to take his air-mass gospel to the ends of the earth...