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...shape of a heart ("symbolic of God's love") and subdivided into six freewheeling reproductions of the Garden of Eden, Rome, Babylon, Israel, Egypt and Ur, the amusement park is scheduled to open Easter Sunday 1961, when tens of thousands can be expected to make the 4O-mile, eight-cylinder pilgrimage from Los Angeles to the site at Cucamonga...
Many workers are using their new popularity to get wages double or treble the union rate, while some employers are cutting working hours. When Volkswagen opened its new Kassel truck plant, 3,000 workers were put on a 4O-hour week v. 44 in the usual contract. Other plants offer cut-rate housing, fatter pensions, and so-called Thirteenth Salary, i.e., a month's pay at Christmas, now almost standard in Germany...
After an early-morning flight from Albany to Washington, a 4O-minute talk with President Eisenhower, a news conference, and a New England boiled dinner in the Senate dining room, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller stood outside the U.S. Capitol, posed for camera-carrying tourists, shook hands with everybody who passed by, finally swabbed off his brow and sighed: "Gee, does every Governor go through this?" The answer to that one was: No, only those who are running for President-and last week Nelson Rockefeller was running hard...
Following the death of his wife Helen (of cancer) in 1954, Milton, lonely and lost in the 14-room president's mansion at Penn State, resigned in 1956 to become president of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, just 4O-odd miles from the White House and within instant direct-line call from the President...
...with public ritual for the day, Ike passed a quiet afternoon alone with his family, contemplating a merciful dispensation from his cautious doctors. Just this once, said they, he could fall off the diet wagon (1,800 calories daily), filling up on as much of the Eisenhower's 4O-lb. turkey and trimmings as he thought he ought to. At dusk, Ike sat down to his groaning board and followed doctors' orders...