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...AUGUSTA HIGGINSON...
...Cape, the other carrying Pentagon messages back to the site. Elaborately, Von Braun lectured the attending brass on the rocket, described the painstaking timing and complex processes that must bring the big bird to life for its skyward trip. Then everybody settled down to wait. In his cottage at Augusta, Ga., President Eisenhower stayed near his telephone...
...TELL YOU IT'S ON THE WAY . . . THE SEARCHLIGHTS ARE GOING ON AND LIGHTING UP THE VEHICLE. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT. Meanwhile at the White House, Presidential Aide Andy Goodpaster relayed the countdown, received over a Pentagon line, to Press Secretary James Hagerty in Augusta. From Central Control at 10:33 the calm voice on the mike droned on: "T minus 15 and still counting...
Leaving the party faithful chuckling behind him (they gave Vice President Nixon a slightly warmer hand), the President boarded the Columbine. In two hours he was in balmy Augusta, Ga., and within 15 minutes after getting to Mamie's Cabin was out on the fairways, to shoot 15 holes before dark in a threesome that included Investment Banker Cliff Roberts and Manhattan Businessman (Cluett, Peabody & Co.) Barry Leithead. Early in the evening while playing bridge, the President was called aside by Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who told him that prospects were improving for a satellite blast-off that night...
Next morning gusts up to 38 m.p.h. and temperatures in the low 405 discouraged much golf. But Ike did play the Augusta National's sheltered 11th-through-14th holes, then returned to the cabin for more bridge. Overnight, the temperature fell to subfreezing. This week, rested but not very much exercised, the President flew back to Washington...