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Parents smilingly held children up to see him; schoolgirls giggled nervously. A middle-aged man in a grey kimono lustily waved a frayed pith helmet, a relic of the army's Pacific salad days, while tears coursed from his eyes. A gnarled old woman stared fixedly, saying over & over in a choked voice, "li des-it is good." The react! ~n. had been the same in farming villages, coal mines, industrial areas-wherever the glossy, chrysanthemum-decked imperial train chugged...
...postwar Germany, where no planes are being built (because the occupation powers forbid it), Willy Messerschmitt, after a denazification court fined him $200 and let him go, might have become a pathetic relic of the war. He was made of sterner stuff. Wherever he looked, the crying need was for more houses. Whole sections of Diisseldorf, Cologne and Nurnberg lay in rubble, and every day more refugees from the East poured in to swamp West Germany's already jam-packed buildings. Frankfurt alone this year hopes to put up 100,000 dwelling units. Quietly Willy Messerschmitt went to work...
Chiefly responsible for this new diplomatic tack was 44-year-old Paul Daniels, the State Department's Director for American Republic Affairs. From long experience, Daniels had concluded that the policy of ignoring de facto governments was silly: it was a relic of the days of kingdoms and duchies; in today's world, nonrecognition, or the threat of it, frightened no one. Moreover, recognition or no, trade and communication between nations always seemed to continue; it was better to have an ambassador on hand to supervise them...
Private Life. He lives in Sacramento's ornate Governor's Mansion, once the boyhood home of Journalist Lincoln Steffens, now converted from an ugly relic into a gleaming legacy of the gingerbread era. He has given up golf and handball. He reads extensively on contemporary problems, dips regularly into his Bible before going to bed and first thing in the morning. His hobby and main relaxation is his lively family. Between fishing trips with his sons, horseback riding with his daughters, near-monthly birthday parties for one Warren or another, he has time for few friends, fewer intimates...
...Kandy's temple is one of Buddhism's holiest shrines. It is supposed to house a tooth of the Gautama Buddha, brought to Ceylon for safekeeping in the 4th Century. The Portuguese claim to have burned this relic in the market place at Goa in the 16th Century, and since then successive teeth have been stolen from the temple by other invaders. But pious Buddhists still believe that the enshrined relic, a chunk of ivory 20 times the size of an ordinary tooth, is the original...