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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet the challenge of Sputnik. But now the recession was coming closer to home-3,400,000 unemployed in December; 4,500,000 in January; 5,100,000 in February. Wearily, Dwight Eisenhower flew to George Humphrey's Milestone Plantation in Georgia, sat before a fire for the best part of seven days, made no pretense at performing presidential functions (TIME, March 3, 1958). It was the low point of his career...
...achieved by the enfeebled sort of fellow that Ike was still pictured, in some circles, as being. In fact, allowing for the natural increment of years, he was the Dwight Eisenhower of the days before his heart attack. His weight stood at 174 Ibs., just 2 Ibs. over his best football weight at West Point. His blood pressure held at a healthy 140/80. He continued to take anticoagulant drugs, held to a low-fat diet, but felt free to wander into the kitchen of his Gettysburg farm to order "nice fresh corn" for lunch. His habits, too, were those...
...been passed over when President Eisenhower named Major General David Shoup, 54, to become Marine Corps commandant effective Jan. 1, 1960. Explained General Megee in Honolulu: "I am retiring because of the feeling that when the Defense Department selects a junior officer for the top spot, it is best to show loyalty by stepping aside...
Blue Cross, the U.S.'s best-known hospital insurance plan, desperately needs a shot in the arm to give it a nationwide growth spurt. And unless the shot is administered soon, Government control of all U.S. hospitals is only a matter of time. These were the blunt alternatives presented to the American Hospital Association in Manhattan last week by John R. Mannix, executive vice president of the Blue Cross of Northeast Ohio...
...laymen, the late Ernest Jones (1879-1958) is best known as the author whose massive The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953 et seq.) gave the world its best glimpse so far at what went on behind the brooding brow of the father of psychoanalysis. But Welsh-born Ernest Jones was also the No. 1 psychoanalyst of the English-speaking world. In Free Associations (Basic Books; $5), his unfinished autobiography published last week, Jones offers the world a posthumous look into his own lively mind...