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...were in Washington," says the University of Chicago's Lorie, "I would ponder the fact that the really steep decline of the stock market started at the time of the Kennedy-Blough battle. I would ponder that, because to a great extent our growth, our prosperity and our hopes of moving the country forward depend on the confidence of businessmen, large and small, and their expectations for the future. If those expectations are damaged, that could be much more serious than the stock market decline...
...Lowell House Junior Common Room. Miss Welty's works include several volumes of short stories: A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Bride of Innisfallen; a book of interrelated stories: The Golden Apples; a novel: Delta Wedding; and two short novels: The Robber Bridgeroom and The Ponder Heart. She has received three O. Henry Memorial Prizes, two Guggenheim Awards, an Harvard from the National Institute for Arts and Letters, and in 1955 the William Dean Howells Medal, presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of American fiction written during the previous five...
...dedication ceremonies for the $3.000.000 Eisenhower Presidential Library in his boyhood home of Abilene, Kans., Dwight Eisenhower had some blunt, plainsman's thoughts for Americans to ponder. Standing before the two-level building, which eventually will hold 20 million documents from his two terms in the White House, Ike wondered aloud: "What has happened to our concept of beauty and decency and morality?" Books and movies are laced with "vulgarity, sensuality, indeed downright filth." People dance "the twist instead of the minuet." Modern paintings look as if they have been "run over by a broken-down tin lizzie loaded...
...long as it is not overburdened by a "message." Americans must learn to relax and surrender to contemplation, which is "almost like falling in love." When they have exhausted the pleasure of comic books, they will automatically graduate to Sherlock Holmes, then to Shakespeare, without having to ponder whether it has all been worthwhile...
...citizen is Public Safety Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, a rambunctious segregationist. Rather than allow integration, Birmingham has shut down the entire city park system, sacrificed the city's baseball team, the annual Metropolitan Opera visit and Broadway shows-leaving Birmingham citizens with much time on their hands to ponder the price of intransigence...