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Deep in the bowels of Widener, an unnoticed cardboard box languishes under a soft blanket of dust amid myriad shelves of forgotten books. Once every few days, a leisurely old man walks down the silent aisle and stops, pulling the cord for a naked bulb to dispel the gloom. Bending over to the bottom shelf, the white-haired man takes out the box and lifts its lid. He smiles...
...casual observer, the heavy snow, gale winds and high tides that struck most of the Northeast last week seemed to have turned Rhode Island into a disaster area. Like homeless refugees, long lines of crying children clinging to their parents snaked through the gloom. But it was not the storm that turned out the Sunday crowds. Rhode Island was engaged in a well-planned exercise in preventive medicine...
Europe's major steel producers will set a tonnage record this year, but the industry's predominant mood is one of gloom rather than cheer. Reason: despite repeated warnings from the European Coal and Steel Community, steelmakers have expanded too rapidly. This year, capacity in Britain and the Common Market countries will rise by 10.7 million tons-while orders from such important customers as the construction and auto industries have slacked off. Britain will have excess capacity until 1970. Italy's state-owned Finsider, which supplies 63% of Italian steel, has completed a string of four coastal...
...Definite Attack. Then, about 36 hours after he was hospitalized, Ike suffered a more prolonged and painful wave of chest pains. A new air of gloom swept the hospital. Doctors moved their patient back into the oxygen tent, continued to treat him (as they had from the start) as if he had had "a full-blown heart attack." After another batch of tests, they announced that the general had indeed been struck by another definite heart attack...
Time of Indifference. Heavy rainfall sets the mood of movie dramas like this one. Worthless, once-wealthy people go walking in the rain or huddle in the Chekhovian gloom of their mortgaged Italian villa, gazing out at the drizzle. Someone plays the piano. Someone moves tentatively toward a hopeless sexual liaison. Someone keeps insisting that the important thing is for people to tell one another the truth...