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Asked at his Augusta news conference whether he thought that the U.S.'s longest nationwide steel strike proved the inadequacy of the Taft-Hartley law, President Eisenhower replied that he did not "think Taft-Hartley is necessarily any cure for this thing. If we can't settle our economic differences by truly free economic bargaining without damaging seriously . . . the United States, then we have come to a pretty pass...
After an all-star conference on the U.S. space lag (see Space), President Eisenhower cleared his desk, canceled his scheduled press conference, and hopped down to Augusta for a five-day cold cure in the Georgia sun. But Augusta last week was cold, rainy and damp by turns, and though Ike got in a couple of rounds of soggy golf, the trip was not much of a vacation. Even before he could swing a club he got the news that his summit plans were coming unstuck and he called a press conference at Augusta's Richmond Hotel for next...
...three crucifixion trees huddled together and covered with mud . . . She also set out to look for the nails which had pinned the Lord to the Cross and found them." Chronicler Ambrose did not mention the tunic, but tradition has it that she gave it to the city of Trier (Augusta Treverorum to the Romans), along with one nail and a piece of the Cross...
Died. Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, 83, seadog commander of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the tense years before Pearl Harbor, who defied threats from the Japanese without shooting at them, although his own U.S.S. Augusta was twice bombed, demanded and got $2,200,000 indemnity when the Japanese sank (1937) the U.S. gunboat Panay on the Yangtze, later, as a retired (1939) officer, denounced the dropping of atom bombs on Japan as "a diabolic act against a defeated nation"; in Newport...
...last-ditch racist type, learning for the first time that Baldy's full name was Baldowski, wrote angrily: "I always wondered why you were such a Nigger lover. Now I know. You're one of those foreigners." As a matter of fact, Moderate Baldy was born in Augusta...