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...wife and six kids, Campy has bought a comfortable home in a prosperous section of St. Albans, L.I. He tends the backyard rose garden himself, officiates at the outdoor barbecue, is never too busy on afternoons at home to play catch with his three boys. Indoors, the large house is cramped with Campy's hobbies. A vast and valuable collection of toy trains clutters the attic; an entire wall of the basement den is covered with carefully tended aquariums of expensive tropical fish. Once the conversation swings around to the bright little creatures, Campy actively resents a change...
...poultry raising, sell them the equipment along with their new homes, even arrange the buying (on credit) of chicks and feed and the marketing of the grown product. Today, a new housing project near Lancaster claims to be the most concentrated poultry raising area in the U.S., with every backyard a crowded chicken...
...transmitting tower had to be raised in the Truman backyard. Miles of wire were strung into and around the twelve-room, 89-year-old house, and a small army of CBS technicians scurried about in its hallways. Four TV cameras were rolled into the building. The principals were wired for sound. By that time the stage was set for an intimate and relaxed family visit that only a few tens of millions of people were expected to watch...
...months. Bomb shelters were on sale in Los Angeles, but hardly anyone was buying them. Californians were more interested in buying swimming pools-at the rate of 25,000 a year. Mrs. C. T. Higgins of Portland, Ore., who four years ago had the city's first private, backyard underground shelter, granted that the family had been thinking about converting it into a walk-in Deepfreeze. Oregon Journal Staffer Doug Baker made an admission in print: he had eaten the last can of sardines out of the family survival...
...that would follow an Eisenhower retirement. As governor of the largest Republican state, he expects to go to the 1956 G.O.P. convention with 70 strategic favorite-son votes in his hip pocket. He will have the added psycho logical advantage of playing host to the convention in his own backyard, at San Francisco's Cow Palace. And if Ike does choose to run - well, the 70 votes might possibly be parlayed into a vice-presidential nomination. In any case, Goodie could wait. He had played a waiting game most of his political life, and he had not really planned...