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...folder, read and talked for an hour and a half. Whatever it was he said, it made a good impression: his audience, consisting of the President, four Cabinet members, the Chiefs of Staff and other top officials, clapped. Never before had the NSC's members burst into a shower of applause...
...ended, there was no doubt that the economic weather was changing. But what was it changing to? Did the clouds mean a mere shower or a furious storm...
Most businessmen, looking at their own sales and order charts, saw only a shower. Even those who had once talked loudly of depression now spoke of a "rolling readjustment," a "mild recession" or a "lull." The new cliché was "let's be realistic." Being "realistic" meant a drop, at most, in the gross national product of 5% to 10% (or back to about the level of 1952) and a rise in unemployment to 3,500,000. But such "realism" did not necessarily mean that the economy would be much shaken...
Pius XII, now 77, works an 18-hour day, seven days a week. He rises at 6:15 every morning, opens his windows, prays, and takes a cold shower. He shaves with an electric razor. While he shaves, a goldfinch named Gretel-one of five small pet birds he keeps-perches on his arm as it moves with the razor.* Until he goes to sleep in his simple brass bed between 12 and 2 a.m., Gretel is his only entertainment. He rarely listens any more to the records from his fine collection (favorites: Bach, Brahms, Wagner), and he has given...
...long out of the hospital where he was laid up by a shower of slings & arrows (alimony, debts, unpaid income taxes, deportation proceedings, all-round exhaustion), caught an extra barb. Word reached him that he had been expelled by Actors Equity because he had falsified his birthplace in applying for membership, claimed he was born in California...