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...severest case of bureaucratic bloat, with 150,000 civil servants out of a labor force of 1,000,000. Government deficits pile up year after year. And under the state's blanket benevolence, incentive is withering. Summer afternoons off to laze on the beach are a national custom. The young retired man has become the national image of success...
...shorn of their royal power, and by the end of this month, when India will officially realign its states, their last royal vestiges, excepting their personal wealth, will disappear. Last week, as the day approached, royal princes by the score journeyed into the palmed city of Mysore in custom-built Cadillacs, svelte Jaguars and private trains for a final royal fling. The occasion was the final Dashahara durbar of the fat (300 Ibs.), rich, able, music-loving Maharaja of Mysore, who has ruled his state as rajpramukh since the coming of the republic...
...success of Breuer's 50-odd custom-built houses, ranging from his own $5,300 box-on-stilts cottage on Cape Cod to a $350,000 modern mansion on Long Island, has paved the way for his small, topflight firm of 15 architects to move into Big Architecture, with current commissions on four college campuses and a share of the Y-shaped UNESCO headquarters in Paris (TIME, May 25, 1953). But unlike many architects who are only too happy to give up designing houses as being low-profit, time-consuming ventures, Breuer (whose fee is a flat...
...teaching that God is in every man. Mahatma Gandhi (whom Agnostic Nehru once called "terribly Hindu") showed India how practical and effective religion could be even in the field of politics. Nehru carried on Gandhi's social reforms, introducing laws that sheared away the encumbrances of caste and custom that held Hinduism mired in the past. Thus freed, modern Hinduism is experiencing a new flowering of philosophical thought under the leadership of Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan...
...autumn leaves First there is the matter of dryness. The pedigreed leaf is quite dry and usually somewhat curled around the edges. This curling is also a universal characteristic of beards, as is dryness. The two exceptions to the latter statement are those who follow the Old Teutonic custom of staining the beard with bits of food, and those too youthful to have the necessary manual dexterity. King Richard III was an example of this fully-haired baby, but his birth is the exception...