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Then, with Mamie, daughter-in-law Barbara and his three grandchildren, Ike took off for Georgia and the Augusta National Golf Club. At the Augusta Club, brainchild of an old Eisenhower friend, Golf Champion Bobby Jones, the Eisenhowers had previously spent quiet family vacations. This time, too, "golf and no visitors" was the planned order...
...week's end Ike had managed to get in a few rounds of golf (see below), but that "no visitors" rule had gone by the board, and Republican politicos were already beginning to roll into Augusta to confer with the general. These conferences, together with plans for the White House meeting and the Korea trip which is to follow it, promised to make Ike's vacation more taxing than the average American's work week...
...commuters train heading into New York one morning last week, two Republican suburbanites gazed at newsphotos of Ike on the Augusta National Golf Links and savored the full measure of their triumph. Said one at last: "Thank God, we've got a golfer in the White House again...
...best scores: an 84 at Denver's Cherry Hills Club, an 81 at the Blind Brook Country Club in New York's Westchester County.) Last week the effects of his recent layoff showed up in the 93 he shot on his first round for score at Augusta. Glumly the President-elect pronounced himself "emphatically not happy...
...senatorial primary last week, Senator Owen Brewster, after 18 years in Congress, was unexpectedly defeated for the G.O.P. nomination by a vote of 68,534 to 65,420. The victor: Governor Frederick George Payne, 51, onetime theater manager who began his political career in 1935 as mayor of Augusta...