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Burma was probably worse off than any country in southeast Asia. Rice, the main staple of Burmese diet, was scarce, chiefly owing to a shortage of draft animals and agricultural implements (in the rice paddies, many a Burmese farmer pulled his own makeshift plow). Nevertheless, the Government insisted on sending large amounts of Burmese rice to India. Farmers had no incentive to sow more, because the ceiling prices at which they can sell their rice were kept low by Government order, while the prices of consumer goods skyrocketed ($8 for a cheap cotton shirt). The promised $120 million British loan...
...vanguard, on trucks and makeshift ambulances, came the wounded who fell in overthrowing the Bolivian tyranny (TIME, July 29). Then followed rifle-toting men & women, exultant students, ordinary citizens. Fifty thousand strong, they paraded last week through La Paz's treeless Plaza Murillo to celebrate the first month of the revolution...
Fixed Obsessions. Some of Author Kavan's characters live in their own homes, some in Swiss and English clinics, some in the makeshift hospitals that cared for England's military psychotics in World War II. But all share a world where normal proportions and meanings have given place to certain fixed obsessions of supreme personal importance...
...Hiroshima's Jisenji Temple for silent prayer and meditation. But thousands of their fellow citizens carried on as if the first anniversary of the atomic bomb were Rodeo Day in the Texas Panhandle. They jammed movie houses to see special anniversary shows, stampeded in the city's makeshift department stores to take advantage of bargain sales in Hiroshima-made products. The day ended with a bangup ritual lantern dance on the grounds of a Shinto shrine...
Hiroshimans flocked to a makeshift horse racecourse reconverted from an army drill ground, and into 17 movie houses (four more than before pika-don). The current feature was one of Japan's first postwar movies called Blast of Love. And for the children, there was a new toy, The Peace Game, priced cheaply at seven...