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...Administration is thankfully paring down its gloomy forecasts of a $12.2 billion budget deficit for fiscal 1959. ending next June 30. Reason: budget experts figure that the economy's bounceback toward robust health will raise the 1959 federal-tax take at least $2 billion above September estimates, will thereby hold the red-ink splash to $10 billion or less...
Everyone was aware of the burdens a septuagenarian was shouldering. The Pope's doctor, Paolo Venchierutti, has announced that the somewhat overweight Pontiff (205 Ibs.) "has a robust stamina unweakened by the years." He generally sleeps no more than six hours a night-retiring at 10 and rising at 4. But however strong his body and short his sleep, the problems that confront his reign are a formidable legacy...
...addition to these large-scale forums, the School sponsored a series of weekly speeches by various notables. C. Northcote Parkinson, a robust, droll English-ganization of his perceptive lectures...
Flying into London for a two-week concert tour, robust Singer Ella Fitzgerald ran afoul of tight-lipped British customs officials, who held up Ella and her eleven-man troupe for almost two hours on a luggage search (object of the hunt: unspecified contraband), cut open toothpaste tubes, analyzed a bottle of vitamin pills belonging to Bassist Ray Brown, tried to probe the large (225 Ibs.) person of Songstress Fitzgerald. Furious, Ella shouted: "I've been a million places but never saw anything like this!", later calmed down over the reaction of her first audience, which yowled for encores...
Masculine Males. What perhaps warmed U.S. audiences most was the robust, open humor and friendliness, the sunny exuberance that blew through the whole performance. The full-bodied Russian girls were ingenuously sensuous without being sensual. The men-possibly the most masculine male dancers ever to kick a leg in Manhattan-performed their muscle-twisting feats witha pure animal joy of movement rarely seen on the stage. Wrote Critic Harold Clurman: "The qualities these dancers possess are those we [Americans] like to claim as our own when we feel ourselves to be at our best...