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...presidential plane Columbine III was ready, after weeks of test flights, to carry Ike and his party to a Thanksgiving holiday* at the Augusta, Ga. National Golf Club. Before takeoff, Mamie Eisenhower christened the new Super-Constellation in a brief ceremony at Washington's National Airport, using, instead of the traditional champagne, a soda bottle full of water from Colorado's north fork of the South Platte River (a favorite presidential trout stream...
...winds made for a bumpy trip south, and Mamie peered anxiously out of her window from time to time. The President, however, chatted quietly with his guest, British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, and a group of golfing companions.* It was cloudy and cold when the Columbine III landed in Augusta, but Thanksgiving morning dawned clear and warm...
Next day Montgomery returned to Washington. Ike decided to stay in Augusta until this week, stubbornly returned to the golf course for another go at lowering his score. The decision meant he had to skip the Army-Navy football game, but he did forget golf long enough to watch the game...
...National Association for the Preservation of the White Race, organized last July, is headed by Augusta, Ga. Store Owner Jack Dempsey, a former Grand Dragon of the K.K.K. The N.A.P.W.R.'s credo: "Negro blood destroyed the civilization of Egypt, India, Phoenicia, Carthage. Greece and Rome." Now Russia wants to destroy the U.S. by prodding "us to accept 16 million Negroes as social equals . . . Every American who by word or deed helps Russia further this plan of race destruction is a traitor to kind and country...
...weeks later Harris attacked the editors in his weekly newspaper in Augusta, naming them "a little handful of sissies, and misguided squirts." He called them perverts and Communists, saying ". . . the time has come to clear out all of these institutions of all Communist influences and the crazy idea of mixing and mingling of the races which was sponsored in this country by the Communist party...