Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife interrupted me twice in my darkroom Saturday. Both interruptions were due to phone calls. As I walked with her sown the hall to the living room, I noticed her palor. The excess of flesh creeping beneath the clothes she wears. I imagined how her feet felt in her shoes. The call was from an associate agency. They think I'm on to something since. I'm not at the office on weekends anymore...
...second call was the same thing. But it gave me another look at my wife. She and Mildred, my secretary, remind me or each other, despite their difference in age. So I guess the sex drive, mine that is, is waning...
Radical and Erratic. Bankers have been baffled by what many call the Federal Reserve's erratic and clumsy attempts at monetary "fine tuning." Even some of the Federal Reserve System's twelve regional banks have been resisting the board. Last week the New York Federal Reserve Bank reported that its officers had disagreed with board policy all through 1968, usually favoring even higher interest rates than the board voted. Some White House economists and many bankers argue that the board's autonomy must be ended...
...even though the seats themselves are 34 in. wide, compared with 22 in. for a Boeing 747. Fully loaded, the Concorde will be able to cover about 4,000 miles, and Paris-New York is a 3,700-mile flight. That leaves no leeway for meeting international standards, which call for a 25% fuel-safety margin. Either the Concorde's range will have to be extended or the plane will have to be restricted to lighter loads...
...appalled at how difficult most of the people in the room were finding it to transcend their own persons and the uniqueness of the situation--at how hard it was for them to enter into any sort of meaningful dialogue with three beautiful people who were trying to call their attention to matters so vital to the problem of what it means to be human...