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...took up the plastic menu and immediately felt my wallet burning in my pants pocket. An assortment of hamburgers and grilled meats stared back at me with their 20- and 25-peso prices. That's only about a dollar, but in Bolivia one needn't ever pay over 15 pesos for a full-course meal. I chose the cheapest item on the list, a perro caliente (Spanish for "hot dog"), which went for seven pesos. Up in the Indian Quarter seven pesos would have bought me soup, a piece of chicken, rice, and chuna, a type of dried potato...
...slender, dapper man, so vain that he refused to carry a wallet or even a pocketful of change lest unsightly bulges spoil the line of his bespoke suit. More of the truth about Samuel Goldwyn was revealed by his actual appearance than by his popular image as the archetypal movie mogul-ignorant, tyrannical, malaprop-spewing...
Another threat to the wallet is the galloping increase in inflation caused by the fuel crisis. The wholesale price in dex in November shot up at an annual rate of 21.6%, led by a 19.3% jump in fuel prices. The Cost of Living Council nevertheless decided last week to per mit an extra boost of 20 a gallon in wholesale prices of heating oil that will shortly raise homeowners' monthly bills...
...many states and slated to become the national standard. On the contrary, a General Motors computer study indicates that trucks burn 1 5% less fuel going 50 to 55 m.p.h. than when doing 70. The real issue in the cabs is not fuel economy but money in the wallet. Most hired drivers are paid by the mile, not the hour; the 400,000 who pilot their own rigs must try to haul as many loads as possible in a week. Averaging 55 rather than 70, they can cover 150 fewer miles in a ten-hour driving...
...impossible, however, to leave Conrad Rooks's filmed Siddhartha without gingerly reaching for one's wallet to make sure it's still there. This unspeakable insult to the cinema and to the India it depicts has all the imaginative variety of a Hare Krishna marathon in Harvard Square, and the P.T. Barnum mentality lately put to profitable use by a noted fifteen-year old mob leader who drives a Rolls-Royce. Never has the search for eternal cosmic wisdom been so short (an hour and a half), seemed so long (an eternity), and revealed so little...