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...Augusta on a long golfing weekend, the President got the word on the Times story, checked the facts on the telephone with McElroy. Instantly he directed Press Secretary Jim Hagerty to issue a statement: While McElroy "has not insisted on rigid adherence to words and phraseology, he has confirmed to the President that no changes in the meaning of any feature of the modernization program have been implied by any testimony of his." Ike himself dictated the final sentence: "Both the President and the Secretary are agreed that there can be no compromise on-or retreat from-the essentials...
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...Georgians expect Bill Hartsfield to have better success than earlier pleaders. But Georgians do believe that the county-unit system will eventually be defeated. The state's population is flowing from farm to city; growing cities-Macon, Augusta, Savannah, etc.-are beginning to suffer what Atlanta has suffered for 60 years at the hands of county legislators. When the cities agitate together, the wool-hats' reign may be doomed at last...
After a winter of high winds and rain-soaked, skittery greens wherever they played, the leg-weary lady golf pros straggled into Augusta, Ga. last week for the $5,000 Titleholders championship, climax of the Southern campaign. Their luck was still bad. The weather would have discouraged a Marlboro...
...temperature dropped and the breeze freshened. Rain was all that was needed to turn each tightly trapped, tree-shrouded fairway of the Augusta Country Club into a sea of trouble-and the rains came. Newcomers to the brooding pressure of the tournament circuit knew the jitters that separate the golfers from the girls. "I know how they feel," said Veteran Fay Crocker, 43. "When you know you've got to make that putt if you're going to eat, the cup just closes...