SIX weeks ago King Farouk, with his Queen and his seven-month-old son, left Cairo in a hurry. He took 204 trunks with him into exile, but left most of his other possessions behind. Last week, for the first time, a group of Western newsmen got a peek at some of them. An Egyptian army captain rolled back the monstrous iron gates of famed Kubbeh Palace and cheerfully announced: "Boys, you're going to see things here that you probably thought didn't exist."
What the newsmen saw was the world's biggest and most expensive accumulation of junk. It threw a pitiless light on the...
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