ARGENTINA: Insidious Sofas

In Buenos Aires the "sofa question" which disturbed official Washington some years ago reared its head last week.

In Washington sofas were removed from the private offices of young and virile U. S. Representatives, but permitted to remain in the private offices of U. S. Senators, men of greater age and discretion. Last week in Buenos Aires the sofa question was put squarely up to Mayor Romulo Naon. Promptly he removed from his City Hall not only all sofas but all easy chairs. "They constituted too great a temptation, as I now realize," said Mayor Naon, "to indolent employes."

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