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...well go into stockpile production with Thor. Reason for production of both, with resulting complication in supporting equipment, etc.: the U.S. needs IRBMs as fast as it can get them. Historical parallel: production of both B-17 and B-24 bombers in World War II. ¶ Flying into Augusta for a two-hour conference with President Eisenhower, Secretary McElroy announced himself "very hopeful" that the U.S. will be able to keep its commitment to provide Britain with IRBMs during 1959, begin to stock other NATO members "earlier than had been expected...
After a whirlwind of paperwork, Ike flew with Mamie to Augusta at week's end, where-between alternate engagements at the links and in his office-he munched (in the Kelly green coat of the exclusive Augusta National Golf Club) crackers from the "Eisenhower Cracker Barrel," a pine-wooded whimsical memento contributed by Treasury ex-Secretary George Humphrey. Rising to the folksiness of the occasion, Ike said between munches, "There'll be no trouble from here on out for the world...
Popping out of the French doors leading from his office to the garden, Ike radiated the good effects of his 13-day vacation in Augusta, Ga. He jovially accepted a leather-bound copy of the women's declaration, then, to everybody's astonishment, broke into a 15-minute extemporaneous foreign-policy address...
Short Game. In the vacation department, Ike's face was burned cherry red, his cough cured, his humor high, and he tackled Augusta's tough and tantalizing course every afternoon. He found his drives booming, his short game mediocre but good enough to score him in the high 80s. Evenings, in a long-established vacation ritual, were spent around the bridge table at "Mamie's Cottage." (Mamie herself took to her bed for a two-day rest, flew back to Washington at week's end to get ready for a heavy social week...
...Augusta President Eisenhower announced these ambassadorial nominations...