Word: anding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frilled Skirts. By evening, Ike was in Athens, and cheering throngs lined Poseidon Avenue and the streets of the suburb of Phaleron (where St. Paul is said to have landed when he journeyed to Greece). Rose petals pelted him as the procession moved past half a million people. "Viva!" they...
Such Greek problems as Cyprus and the threat of Iron Curtain countries to the north got a thorough going-over during Ike's talks with Premier Constantin Karamanlis. The Greeks, too, delicately hinted that the President should not put too much stock in Russian peace talk, reminded him that...
Marching Saints. By helicopter, Ike swung down to the deck of the U.S. Cruiser Des Moines, flagship of Vice Admiral George W. Anderson Jr.'s Sixth Fleet. On his cruise through the Mediterranean, the President finally got a chance to unwind. He slipped into a sports coat and slacks...
The Navy put on a show of bombing and strafing tactics next day for the benefit of the press party that was billeted aboard the accompanying aircraft carrier Essex, and Ike watched that for a short time. All hands got a glimpse of fine old Navy tradition when Des Moines...
You-You-You. On the morning of the third day out, the fleet dropped anchor in the Bay of Tunis, and Ike and his party buzzed by helicopter to the Tunis suburb of La Marsa, just north of the old Punic ruins of Carthage. There, on a small asphalt lot...