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Simultaneously barbaric and benevolent, he treated his oldest son the same way. The boy liked and was liked at private school in Switzerland; after five happy years, his father brought him home, consoled him with mistresses and sent him to the military academy with strict orders that he be treated roughly. Mohammed Reza Pahlevi grew into a mild and friendly youth, somewhat unsure of himself, who played with fast cars, fast women and fast planes. In 1941, when the British exiled his father from his throne for trafficking with the Nazis, Mohammed Reza, at 21, became the Shahinshah...
...Scrap. Order has been brought to a price scramble where Italy paid as high as $85 a ton for scrap from India, while The Netherlands held its own price down to $22.50 by strict controls. A common market has established a price of $33 a ton (v. the U.S.'s $43), and Italy, which still has to depend on high-priced foreign scrap, gets a subsidy from the other Schumania nations to make up the difference. At first, France's government tried to buck the common market with its own cartel designed to limit exports, but yielded when...
...Congress could not trust the Truman Administration's figures on European needs, should get its own statistics. Herter led his 17 Congressmen and a pride of experts off on a two-month trip to Europe. He sternly forbade his crew to bring either wives or tuxedoes, and so strict were his rules against extracurricular nonsense that this sign appeared on the door of the Queen Mary's lecture room...
...fiscal crisis could not be figured out of existence. He could solve it only by 1) slashing all Government spending, including defense, until outgo meets income, or 2) getting the ceiling lifted by a special session of Congress. Humphrey's own Treasury began enforcing an "austerity" drive of strict economy, to set other bureaus an example. But Humphrey was convinced that a special session would have to be called...
...martial law has not been lifted, as the editors of Gómez' El Siglo found out last week. Angered by a tactless editorial which seemed to take Peru's side in the Haya controversy, Rojas Pinilla closed El Siglo for a day. Censorship was also strict, though seemingly impartial, at other papers. Rojas has promised to return a measure of press freedom, after working out a set of "newspapermen's commandments." This may be less onerous than Gómez' capricious prior censorship, because it will put the rules down in black & white...