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Eisenhower used Jones' cottage beside the Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Ga., for a brief vacation...
...Savannah River Valley, the $1.5 billion hydrogen-bomb plant caused Barnwell, S.C. to quintuple its population (from 2,500 to 13,000). A mobile city of 1,200 trailers sprang up almost overnight. In nearby Augusta, Ga., whose population shot from 71,040 to 150,000 in two years, it was easy to forget the plant's grim purpose in the flood of new jobs it brought. When White's Department Store hung out a Christmas sign, "Santa Claus Is Here!", Reporter Esther Young of the Augusta Chronicle cracked: "Why, everybody knows that Santa Claus is over...
...Eisenhower's 13-day vacation at the Augusta National Golf Club drew to a close last week, Mamie Eisenhower measured the results with a wifely eye. By week's end she knew that Ike was soaring out of a case of real postcampaign fatigue. He had taken on a deep new tan and recovered his old bounce. The veins that stood out on his forehead and hands during the last days of the campaign were no longer visible. And, most convincing to any wife, Ike remembered Mamie's birthday (her 56th) with a pink wool robe...
...mornings he tried a few unsuccessful casts for bass in "Ike's pond," an artificial lake built at his suggestion on a visit in 1949. But Ike spent most of his time out on the golf course, dressed in flannel slacks, sport shirt and the Kelly green Augusta club jacket (its emblem: an outline of the U.S. with a red golf flag marking the location of Augusta). On two days when it rained, he played the course carrying an umbrella. His game was improving steadily as his nerves relaxed. One day he broke 90 for the first time since...
Undismayed by Ike's golfing slump, Ed Dudley, Augusta National's pro, rated the Eisenhower game "good in all departments." Ike, said Dudley, must be classified as a long-ball hitter since his drives regularly carry 225 to 230 yards. Practice has brought his putting which used to be "poor" about even with the rest of his game. "But he excels with the short irons," said Dudley. "He is more consistent with them-the wedge [for sand traps], the eight and nine irons [for approach shots...