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Browsing through the stacks of cards and telegrams that poured in from round the world, Harry S Truman quietly passed his 84th birthday at home with Bess in Independence...
...economy was also a worry, even though the gross national product neared the $800 billion mark and the nation's uninterrupted expansion percolated into its 84th month, three months longer than the old record. There were inflationary signs, a big balance-of-payments deficit, pressure on the dollar after Britain's devaluation of the pound. Economists and politicians began talking about "profitless prosperity." When Johnson asked belatedly for a 10% surcharge on income taxes to damp down the supercharged economy, Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, insisted on an equivalent cut in federal spending...
Harry was born in Texas and worked on the Houston Post from 1938 to 1954, with three years out for Army duty in World War II. A combat correspondent with the rank of Staff Sergeant, he covered the campaigns in The Netherlands and Germany with the 84th Infantry Division and won the Bronze Star. He was City Editor of the Post when he joined Time as a correspondent in the Washington bureau 13 years...
...after six years of stringent economic controls under the Labor government of Clement Attlee, the Conservatives swept into power on a variant of an Old Testament exhortation: "Set the people free." Last week, as the Conservative Party met for its 84th annual convention in the seaside resort of Blackpool, the old slogan echoed again...
...bittersweetly beloved Dublin, scarcely a stout was downed in his honor at Davy Byrne's, the pub he celebrated. But in Paris, at the American Center for Students and Artists, 350 partisans of James Joyce got together to celebrate the 84th anniversary of his birth. After Author Mary McCarthy, Joyce Scholar Stuart Gilbert and the rest of the cult articulately wished him a happy birthday, the ghost of James lyrically garbled everything by reciting some of Ulysses from a tape recorder...