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...chair, a test tube, a loaf of bread...art is a mathematician's formula, a philosopher's way of life, any man's dreams...
...through certain sentences (still clearly legible) that White House staffers found objectionable. It was not censorship they wanted, the aides explained. They just did not think that the U.S. public needed to know that President Nixon mixed himself a martini every night before dinner, that the Nixons love meat loaf and hate calf's liver, that Pat Nixon "at times appears to lack a good appetite" and that she was in the White House eleven months before she visited the chefs in the kitchen...
Doggedly, Heath kept to his own path, convinced that housewives were heeding his message. If Labor came back to power, he cried, its tax policies would guarantee more inflation. "We would have a 3-shilling loaf, a shilling bus fare and a shilling telephone call, and we would have to pay for them out of a 10-shilling pound," he declared. In Leicester, he evoked the specter of "the poor, the penniless and the housewives" facing across-the-board price boosts?milk up twopence a pint, jam up 8 pence a pound, sausage up 9 pence, coal...
...forces drive past The Netherlands into Germany. Crippled by their lack of transportation, the Dutch freeze and starve. In January 1945, the food ration is down to 500 calories a day; families eat tulip bulbs and "roof rabbit" -cats and dogs. Bread on the black market is $27 a loaf. Abandoned houses are torn up for firewood. Not until just before the German surrender do Allied food drops begin...
...chair, a test tube, a loaf of bread ... art is a mathematician's formula. a philosopher's way of life. any man's dreams...