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Explosive Exodus. If their polemics sounded curiously off-key in the never-had-it-so-good society, the Young Angries at least helped ventilate British complacency and restore some of the dynamics that had gone out of the welfare state. A later wave of novelists and starkly realistic films bitterly mocked the opportunism and intellectual dishonesty of society as they saw it. Last year, for the first time since Pope and Swift peppered the 18th century Establishment with choleric wit, no-holds-barred political satire found a big, avid audience in theaters, nightclubs and newspaper columns. Even on BBC television...
...have no bathrooms, and at least 500,000 are officially designated as slums. Britain in the next 20 years will have to build a minimum of 300,000 houses a year. The shortage is compounded by a steady influx of office buildings into downtown areas and an exodus of city dwellers to the suburbs, where land grows ever more scarce and costly. Outside London, the government may even be compelled to build new towns in the Green Belts, as Britons call the jealously preserved rural areas around their cities...
After M.I.T., Bustani settled in Palestine, where he set up a contracting firm that specialized in installing bathrooms. His first big expansion came during World War II, when CAT became a major builder of British military installations in the Middle East. Even its exodus from Palestine after the establishment of Israel did not slow CAT down. By insisting on high standards and by patiently training local labor, Bustani proved that Arabs could do as good a construction job as anyone else. During the great postwar rush to expand Mideastern oil output, CAT began taking contracts away from Western companies, eventually...
...there for a year, then went to Washington as a Budget Bureau analyst. After wartime service as a Marine intelligence officer, he returned to the Budget Bureau, moved on to become a White House assistant and one of Truman's top speechwriters. Departing from Washington in the Democratic exodus of early 1953, Bell went back to Harvard. In 1954-57, between stints of teaching economics, he served in Pakistan as head of a team that Harvard, with Ford Foundation money, sent out to advise the Pakistanis on how to manage their economy...
Beauty in Bavaria. One reason for the exodus, explains a German realty salesman, is that "Hitler and the war isolated us from the world." Says he: "Living abroad gives us a liberating feeling of belonging again." In fact, Germans abroad fraternize little with foreigners, prefer as a rule to segregate themselves in Teuton-villes that, except for sea air and plentiful help, could be summer suburbs of Stuttgart. Many buy land abroad in order to dispose of "black capital," as they call unreported income. Others frankly seek out areas that German real estate ads describe as "far from any crisis...