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...government were his solid gold and silver temple, a fortress filled with jewels, all his palaces but one, three-fourths of his private possessions. The royal herd of 200 elephants melted down to a mere dozen or so, and only a dozen polo ponies remain from his prewar champion string of 100. Even so, the maharaja still manages to make ends meet...
...sentries checked in at the guardhouse on their rounds, the intruders overpowered them and trussed them up. "Consider yourselves prisoners of war," said the leader of the commando gang. The raiders were members of the Irish Republican Army, that outlawed, audacious nationalistic group which, in prewar days, used to plant time bombs in the British mails to reinforce its demand for the unification of Ireland. Swiftly, they went to work, loading rifles, Sten guns, light machine guns and 200,000 rounds of ammunition into a fleet of cars that rolled in through the main gate, then vanished into the night...
Home & Summit. Last week, reporting to a vacation-bound Assembly, Faure pointed out that though wages had been raised, living costs had held stable. Productivity was up 10.5% over last year, and 76% from prewar. If progress continues at this rate, said Faure proudly, France's standard of living will double in the next ten years...
...hospital; another, a onetime gardener, now owns 30 movie theaters. There are new power plants, new dams, new roads, new schools. The number of schoolrooms has increased tenfold since war's end; the death rate is down to less than 40% of prewar. Many Okinawans who once existed exclusively on a sweet-potato diet have climbed a rung on the Oriental living scale and eat rice. "Before the war, only section chiefs and above in the government wore shoes," says one Okinawan. "Now everybody has a pair." The Colonial Business. Without anyone really intending it that...
Nothing perhaps pleased Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler and his Conservatives so much as the designation: "Chancellor of the Continuing Boom." Britain's boom and its attendant pleasures-the highest standard of living ever, the end of all rationing, a 50% increase of production over prewar years-was the largest single reason for the Tory sweep in the May general elections. After six years of war and half a dozen more of stiff austerity, all this seemed too good to be true...