Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane, but reminded his father of an old infantry tradition: a good officer eats holiday dinners with his men. He would stay until Thanksgiving afternoon, said the major. He bundled his wife Barbara, their three children and Skunky, their fat, aging Scotty, aboard. The Columbine took off for Augusta and the new "Little White House...
...Augusta airport David, 5½, emerged, waving a tall black cardboard hat. "He's a Pilgrim," explained grandmother Mamie Eisenhower. In an hour Ike was on the first tee in a golf foursome. Playing 18 holes, he was off his usual game (middle 80s), and shooting in the 90s. Then the President settled down in "the Eisenhower Cabin," as the Augusta National Golf Club officially calls the $75,000, seven-room house it built for Ike. The "cabin," styled with a white-columned front porch and a steep slate roof with dormer windows, perches on a ridge...
...Georgia's Augusta National Golf Club, Dwight Eisenhower slept through McCarthy's speech. When reports about it came in, the President kept his temper and his silence. But almost everyone around him agreed that, in the face of McCarthy's challenge, Eisenhower's McCarthy problem will have to be solved soon. Presidential aides, long divided on Administration policy toward McCarthy, were still divided. A small minority, determined to preserve party harmony, was against an open battle at this point. A majority thought that the time had come for Dwight Eisenhower to give the back...
...babies when they are restless and at other times ignoring them, the babies not only cry more but grow more slowly than those who get consistent, considerate care. ¶ The story of a young mother with a triple personality. Drs. Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley of Augusta, Ga. told of a patient whom they called Eve White who had a second personality, "Eve Black," and a third known simply as "Jane." Prim and proper Eve White seemed to be unaware of the existence of Eve Black, but in the Eve Black phase she became coquettish and informal...
...week's end, he seemed fully recovered; he attended services at Augusta's Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church, and then hied himself back to the course and played 18 holes with Senator Bob Taft, newly arrived for a two-day visit. The President was mum about the outcome, but fairly exuded satisfaction afterward: "I'll tell you this-I made my best score . . ." Champion-Emeritus Bobby Jones let the cat out of the bag: the President, he reported, had shot an 86, thus breaking 90, as far as anyone knew, for the first time since Inauguration...