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...pass, lest some passenger catch an accidental glimpse of him. Now, wearing the embarrassed look of a man intruding, he visited every prefecture in the country, climbing down mine shafts, trudging through factories, talking to peasants in paddyfields. He won wide respect for continuing to live in a damp, one-story, concrete air-raid shelter on the palace grounds. "The people are suffering too from lack of housing," he declared. But when the occupation ended in 1952, the seven zealous chief court chamberlains again rang down the Chrysanthemum Curtain between the Emperor and his people. Only rarely was he allowed...
Three weeks short of his 70th birthday, President de Gaulle went into four-day seclusion at his country retreat in the Champagne region of northeastern France. He tramped in his damp wooded fields ("I have walked them 15,000 times"), sat in the tower study he has added to the old stone farmhouse, working on his first radio-TV speech in five months...
...week's climax came on Kennedy's own home grounds of Boston. Wet confetti showered on Pat and Dick, cheers echoed through the damp, narrow streets from Bostonians lined six to eight deep, and many broke ranks to chase after his car. Police numbered the throng at an extravagant 250,000, yet it was undoubtedly the biggest street turnout anywhere in the campaign...
Kennedy ran into foul weather. The rain that had turned the fields into a sea of sticky mud started up again just as he began to speak. Said he, looking down at some 20,000 damp faces: "I regret the rain, but it rains, as the Bible tells us. on the just and the unjust alike, on Republicans as well as Democrats." He was right: when Nixon spoke from the same platform next day, it rained again, though not until near the end of the speech (South Dakota is traditionally Republican territory). A week before, at Guthrie Center, Iowa, Nixon...
Carlo Barbieri, art critic for Naples' // Mattino: "Italy's artistic patrimony has been saved by the work of restorers, especially in the removal of frescoes from damp and crumbling walls and the transferring of paintings to new canvases...