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...strains of Star Dust, played by the Melachrino Strings, wafted from the eighth-floor tower room at Denver's Fitzsimons Army Hospital. An idle glassene oxygen tent was placed outside the door m the flower-banked corridor. Inside the room, the world's most important hospital patient rested comfortably and listened to the music. A week after his heart attack President Eisenhower was making steady progress toward recovery...
...President's path of progress was measured in small but significant steps. After four days, the use of narcotics was dropped (although Ike continued to receive anticoagulants, as a precaution against blood clots, and Seconal, a sedative to help him rest). He was gradually "weaned" from the oxygen tent. The periods of dozing slacked off, and the President began to take an alert interest in the outside world. When Press Secretary James Hagerty popped in for a brief visit, Ike asked him how the affairs of the nation were going. "Just fine, Mr. President," said Hagerty. "Everything is fine...
Monday. President Eisenhower ate a good breakfast, his first full meal since the heart attack. His fever subsided to normal. The oxygen tent was removed for brief intervals during the day, and Dr. Paul Dudley White, the famous heart and interview specialist (see below) returned to Boston...
Thursday. The cardiographic checks on the President's heart showed satisfactory healing, and the doctors reduced the daily cardiograms from two to one a day (just before breakfast). Use of the oxygen tent was discontinued altogether. Ike listened to music by Bach, e.g., Air on the G String, Sheep May Safely Graze, which he had requested, and a pretty Army nurse, First Lieut. Lorraine P. Knox, read to him from the Reader's Digest. Mamie Eisenhower's bedside visits became longer and more frequent. The First Lady took her lunch in the President's room...
...revolution, Perón also had a bomb shelter and Hitler-style funk hole. Through a secret panel in the ground-floor pressroom of his downtown publishing house, a passage led to an underground vault lined with rosewood. A bedroom there had silk pajamas, an emergency supply of oxygen, and a wall safe big enough to walk into. Oddly, when investigators did enter the safe, they easily tapped out the plaster wall at the back and found a long underground escape passage leading to another office building next door...