Like a thoughtful host, Harry Truman made the White House as comfortable as possible for his guests last weeka cozy 74°. In some Government buildings temperatures, by presidential order, went no higher than 68°. There was plenty of coal for the Executive Mansion; a few federal buildings are heated by oil, and oil was hard to get (see BUSINESS).
The President's week was, in many ways, as comfortably old-fashioned as his heating arrangements. Not in many a moon had he glad-handed so many peoplefrom turbaned, bearded Most Rev. Dr. Mar Ivanios, Catholic...
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