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...Calm View. For all these woeful tidings, U.S. businessmen worried less than the politicians about the recession (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Businessmen did not brush the facts under the rug, but their anxieties were generally more for "the other guy" than for their own business. They saw no long slide but talked of the decline as the "saucer recession"-a curving dip to a level bottom and a climb on the other side. They viewed the now-dwindling inventory surpluses as a natural result of years of postwar expansion to keep pace with ever-growing markets-and considered this situation...
...Risk. Silky's only stubborn detractors are the early-morning dockers, the stopwatch specialists who have heard him come back from a workout wheezing like an equine asthmatic. Silky's outraged owners brush off such canards. They admit no more than that their horse is a "roarer," i.e., an animal who clears his ears, nose and throat with a sound like a bull alligator with his tail caught in a trap. They have other health problems on their minds. Each of the two owners is a cardiac case...
...White House. Lyndon Johnson began looking closely at the problems of space 2% months ago after listening to brush-browed Physicist Edward Teller (TIME, Dec. 9) testify before the Johnson Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee...
...Promoter Nordness hung on the turnstiles, at week's end seemed to have a fairchance of breaking even. Attendance (at 95?a head) for the first two days of the ten-day show: 6,942. Total picture sales: $15,175. At least the show had demonstrated the widespread, brush-in-hand U.S. interest in painting. With reasonable success in 1958, it might become a revealing annual event...
Antonietta's seizures stopped when the Madonna's weeping began. Other cures swiftly followed. All that seemed needed was to brush the lame and the halt with a bit of cloth wetted by the tears of the Madonna; a 49-year-old man got back the use of his crippled left arm, a three-year-old girl moved her polio-paralyzed arm, an 18-year-old girl who had been dumb suddenly spoke...