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Postponing Better Days. Actually, consumer-goods gains in 1954 were relatively small. According to the report of the Central Statistical Bureau, there was a 27% increase in the production of artificial silk underwear and a 6% increase in cotton fabrics, but in surveying the whole field, the bureau found that "much of this production was still of unsatisfactory quality." Makers of pianos, cameras, champagne, cigarettes, sausages, tea, matches and soap had exceeded their production quotas...
...younger sister dutifully attended to the routine chores of visiting royalty. But her schedule allowed plenty of time for listening to throbbing calypso rhythms, watching native dancers and admiring the lush tropical countryside. At a formal dinner, Margaret set Trinidad society ladies atwitter with a modishly low-cut white silk gown and a dazzling new upswept coiffure...
...Avenue to awaken his master one morning last week, he saw a ghastly sight. Supine on the wall-to-wall carpet lay the master-46-year-old Serge Rubinstein, millionaire, financial finagler, satyr and draft dodger-bound, gagged, strangled and quite dead. The body was dressed in midnight-blue silk pajamas, and the room was a picture of studied disarray...
...soldiers competed to eat at his table; refugees chaired him around their hovels in informal marches of triumph. Diem took his reception spiritedly, with none of his celebrated reticence, enjoying crayfish that had been smuggled south to him from the Communist North, and a Confucian ballet performed by 32 silk-clad girls. Diem also impressed the villagers by his coolness when his ceremonial barge, overloaded with admirers who clambered aboard, capsized and sank in the river near Hué. "Ladies first," Diem insisted from knee-deep in the river, when rescuers put out from shore...
Debonair in a silk scarf and herringbone topcoat, and physically not fading at all, General Douglas MacArthur who will be 75 this month, left his 37th-floor apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers to commute by limousine to his job in suburban Connecticut. As Remington Rand Inc.'s $68,600-a-year board chairman, MacArthur makes two or three such trips a week. In his fourth year of retirement as a soldier, he is seldom seen, presumably spends much time in the towers with his family and his memories...