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...Cincinnati. They buried him within touch of an iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburgh. They buried him by the side of the best sheep-grazing country on the earth and yet the wool in the coffin bands and the coffin bands themselves were brought from the North. They buried him in a New York coat and a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati. The South didn't furnish a thing on earth...
Next morning, the President downed a breakfast of grapefruit, a four-minute egg, toast & coffee, put on two shirts (wool over cotton) and, despite chilly weather, hiked along the Key West sea wall before the town was awake. The drizzle ruled out his swim at Truman Beach, but he spent the morning indoors beside the phonograph, listening to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, Chopin's Polonaise and Brahms's Symphony...
...materials and food are costing Britain 40% more than they did before Korea; the prices of her exports are up only 25%. Uneven worldwide inflation means that Britain must exchange almost twice as many automobiles and tweeds as she did for the same amount of wheat and wool she bought a year ago. ¶ Britain is not producing enough coal and steel to supply both her export industries and the rearmament drive. Once the world's largest coal exporter, she is now carrying coals to Newcastle, and this winter will again import coal from the U.S. The rest...
...Every dawn brought a poet's bonus in beauty: "The air is like silk today and there is a sheen upon the world like the sheen on a bird's wing. It's very quiet except for the gardener and his spade and warm as fine wool...
Before he found his future, at 14, Graham had made serious attempts at suicide. Once he drank some photograph developing fluid and a bottle of hay-fever lotion. Another time he tried eating a bunch of deadly nightshade. He can still remember "the curious sensation of swimming through wool" after swallowing 20 aspirins and jumping into the school swimming pool...