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Nehru moved about at receptions with high good humor and grace. At India House, he shook hands with the Dowager Marchioness of Willingdon, whose husband had jailed him; at Buckingham Palace, he ate from His Majesty's gold plate, a delightful change from the tin service he had known as a nine-year guest in H. M.'s prisons. Jinnah was socially crusty, giving the impression of a man deeply aggrieved. When the travelers got down to cases, however, it was the smiling Nehru who proved most stubborn...
...Cross a Bridge. At Shrirampore, in a region called Noakhali, he settled down in a small, tin-roofed cottage in a dense tropical forest surrounded by ponds, coconut and betel palm groves and paddy fields. He dismissed his retinue of ipo people except for a stenographer and a teacher, who thought Gandhi at 77 not too old to learn Bengali. Often at Shrirampore Gandhi sang Rabindranath Tagore's Ekla Chalo (Walk Alone). Out one day for his afternoon walk, Gandhi tried to cross a bamboo-stick bridge, slipped and was saved from a splash by his teacher. Murmured Gandhi...
...Japan from its rubble had barely begun. Reconstruction, hampered by lack of materials and tools, by strikes, and by requirements of the occupation force, stood at only 13%; industry at 30%. The occupation army required 90% of the cement and metal piping, much of the wiring, nearly all the tin and slate roofing. Allied dependents had taken over 6,000 of the best Western-style houses. But Japanese still respected the authority of their conquerors. Most blamed their pitiable condition on their own Government; few save the Communists held General MacArthur or the Emperor responsible for their plight...
...square feet of housing space. In Tokyo's Ushigome ward, authorities held a lottery to determine which of 19,000 applicants would get the 416 new houses. About 2,000, including women with babies on their backs, slept in the subway; others grubbed for a roof in rusty tin sheds, converted barges, burned-out buses or the ruins of a temple. Curiously, the natives could scrape together enough lumber and rice straws to fashion a monstrous symbol: in the town of Sahara, a malevolently glowering American eagle was paraded in tribute to the new Japanese Constitution...
...golf had been suffering, got a checkup at a hospital, was treated for a stiff elbow. Actor George Sanders took fresh note of the way celebrities got mauled and announced that he would never again give his autograph in public. And PRC Pictures announced that it was bringing Rin Tin Tin back in Vita-color...