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...bright yellow sport shirt with a brown grill design on the front. They were worn with light-colored slacks. Usually, at the beach, the 65-year-old President simply sat in the sun, watching his staff frolic with a volleyball, then changed into bathing trunks and took a quick dip in the warm and transparent water...
Blue Danube, Dark Skies. It was a light schedule, and shortly before noon he was ready to relax. He donned a white pith helmet, strolled to the beach past blossoming frangipani, hibiscus and bougainvillaea, soaked up sunshine for two hours and took a dip in the blue-green waters of the Gulf of Mexico. He went for a dip again on St. Patrick's Day-wearing green trunks. That evening he got out a big batch of phonograph records, gave his staff a canned concert of piano selections-such pieces as the Blue Danube and a Chopin Polonaise...
...meant "Are there any men-of-war about?" To show which kind of warships she was looking for, the Oregon broke out a Spanish flag. Joshua Slocum answered "No." He could not resist adding: "Let us keep together for mutual protection." The Oregon's only acknowledgment was to dip her flag three times to the Spray's own lowered flag, and to hurry...
Slichter, speaking before the Dairy Industries Supply Association, emphasized that the trend to a "self-sustaining economy" is still in progress. Before it is over, he said, production will drop and unemployment will rise. But the dip in unemployment and production will not come until late 1950, and will not be steep, he predicted...
Another reason for the dip, said Slichter, is that prices of farm products are "substantially" above the level where they are likely to remain...