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...beef consumption and restore it to its historic role as a foreign-exchange earner. One day Amalia Ferrer, wife of an insurance-company employee, said to her butcher: "Carlos, two kilos of beefsteak." Carlos cut the thick slices, said: "Seventysix pesos [the equivalent of 19? a pound]." Señora Ferrer protested: "But Don Carlos, only last Friday I paid 60." Sighed the butcher: "That was Friday. Today this is the price; soon it will be more." The housewife settled for stew beef...
Police kept dipping and diving last week in Denver, where 10,000 do-se-doers assembled for the eighth annual National Convention of Square Dancers. On two days the cops roped off Denver's 16th Street, and through most of the week the frisky conventioneers roped off all the city's ballroom and dance-floor space-including shopping centers-to romp for 13½ hours a day through the Paul Jones, the Sicilian Circle, the Soldier...
...tell or show me what Señor Castro would look like without his barba and/or his rifle...
...thinking rationally about anything. I often asked him before and after the war why he wore a swastika button in his lapel. He wore it, he told me, because Roosevelt, Churchill and especially Stalin were mankind's greatest scourges, and because the Jews deserved to be exterminated." ¶Señora Orozco: "My husband was not only a good man who loved his family and thought of them constantly, but he was always relaxed at home, always serene, irresistibly humorous, and in every way normal...
From such figures, many economists conclude that the uproar about inflation is overdone. Says a top Administration economist: "The school that says that any degree of price increase at all is sinful and wicked per se is being dogmatic and doctrinaire. Relative stability is the proper goal, and you must have the adjective with the noun...