tremendous pop cultural figure in certain ways or at least a literary figure. his spiritual autobiography, the stephen story mountain which he published shortly after world war ii became this shocking out of nowhere huge best-seller. they printed a few hundred copies. it ends up selling 100,000. and was this breakout success. and for a monk he was very much out in the world. this is kind of far afield from what we re talking about. but if you watch the movie quiz show there s a scene where they re having a picnic lunch at mark van doren s house in connecticut. thomas merton is at the table. there s a wonderful book and i can t remember the title of it now, but it s about the correspondence and relationship between dorothy day, flannery o connor, walker piercy and thomas merton, all of whom very influential catholic writers of one kind or another at roughly the same period in history. so there was this kind of roiling under the surface of the church at that point. all of these peo
of nowhere huge best-seller. they printed a few hundred copies. it ends up selling 100,000. and was this breakout success. and for a monk he was very much out in the world. this is kind of far afield from what we re talking about. but if you watch the movie quiz show there s a scene where they re having a picnic lunch at mark van doren s house in connecticut. thomas merton is at the table. there s a woerful book and i can t remember the title of it now, but it s about the correspondence and relationship between dorothy day, flannery o connor, walker piercy and thomas merton, all of whom very influential catholic writers of one kind or another at roughly the same period in history. so there was this kind of roiling under the surface of the church at that point. all of these people were important figures in it. and i would point out that both dorothy day and thomas merton ran seriously afoul of the institutional church.
ford, pennsylvania. reporter: all of the 620 employees are enjoying a picnic lunch under the tents. the 500 millionth zippo lighter was manufactured today. they are making 60,000 replicas today. we want to show you video of the zippo lighter that was made today. it s a classic brush chrome lighter in gray with a special two-tone logo, a pretty big deal for this company. the lighter was passed hand-to-hand among all the employees in a line down here to this location where the grandson of the founder, george duke, lit that lighter and talked about this company being based in bradford for 80 years, and the president of the company joins us now. tell us about the significance of 500 million.
the process, for that, i want you to take a look here. i will not try and walk you through it. it s a mess. the bottom line is 917 billion dml spending cuts with a special committee in charge of finding $1.5 trillion cuts by the end of the year, and the debt limit rises by $900 billion now, and $1.5 later. already, there is one potential wrinkle here. the nonpartisan budget congressional office says the plan would cut spending only by 1.5 trillion, not 2.4 trillion. we are following all the claims and repercussions as only cnn can. by colleagues join me, and if you don t believe this is a huge story, look at richard quest, all the way from london. tell us how the deal came to be, and what are the prospects it will bring? first, you explained it as best as anybody could involved in the process. and it is a mess. the democratic plan is rejected in the house, and it looked like a day care here in washington. we did know what the rough pieces of an agreement would look like and