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...Many Watches? Dubinsky's life is the union. Immensely likable, he is cordial to everyone, but intimate with no one. He takes home to dinner anybody he happens to be working with. Home is what he calls "a good proletarian penthouse" on unfashionable West Sixteenth Street. (Says Dubinsky: "I never tell reporters, because right away they say, 'aha, a labor leader lives in a penthouse,' as though a labor leader shouldn't be comfortable.") He pays $190 a month rent, lives there with his wife, their divorced daughter and her child Ryna, who is the apple...
...Good Years & Bad. Embarrassed by the Post series, Aroostook farmers rushed forward with explanations. They argued, as every farmer does, that good years only made up for many bad ones, and that their business is at the mercy of the weather. They pointed out that potato raising is an expensive business, with all the costs of planting, harvesting and shipping to come out of their Government checks. But even the potato lobby in Washington (headed by Senator Owen Brewster) had realized that it had begun to overdo...
Britain's literate, left-wing New Statesman and Nation, which is apt to make rude noises at all critics of Socialism (particularly if the critics are American), has discovered that in Socialist Britain the good old manners have gone to hell. A New Statesman essayist who sounded just a little like a learned Colonel Blimp charted the decline & fall of civility in Britain...
From start to finish, last week's farewell party for the retiring ambassador* and his wife was a happy get-together of good friends. Evita brought a new portrait down from the second floor to show her guests. Perón gave his friend Don Jaime a hand-tooled Belgian automatic shotgun, just the gift for an ambassador whose favorite Argentine sport has been weekend partridge shooting (in the Gaucho getup given him by Defense Minister Humberto Sosa Molina...
During his two years in Buenos Aires, big Jim Bruce had seen U.S.-Argentine relations hit bottom, then start an upward climb. With dogged good will he had brushed aside one anti-U.S. press campaign after another. Perón and Bruce seemed to hit it off well together. Bruce, a millionaire who knew how to run a business, never lost a chance to lecture the President on economics. "Let the Argentine economy alone," he kept repeating. "Don't tinker with...