Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the President prepared to make a nationwide radio and TV Christmas Eve appeal for peace. Christmas Day the Eisenhowers would fly to the Eisenhower Cabin in Augusta, Ga., where he planned to work on the three messages he must deliver to Congress in January. "It will be a pretty tough time," remarked the President...
...Presidential plane Columbine hummed northward from Bermuda, high over the Atlantic. In his midships cabin, Dwight Eisenhower sat at his desk, making final corrections and checks on the speech he would give, later in the afternoon, before the U.N.'s General Assembly (TIME, Dec. 14). As the President finished each page, he handed it across the aisle to Ann Whitman, his private secretary, who sat before a special I.B.M. electric typewriter equipped with jumbo type. As Mrs. Whitman finished the final proofed copy of the speech, she passed it on to Mary Caffrey, secretary to James Hagerty, who banged...
...Major "Chuck" Yeager, the first pilot to fly faster than sound, and by Captain Harold E. Collins, who set an official speed record in a Sabre jet. After putting the MIG through its paces, they decided that it 1) has "insufficient stall warning"; 2) has a cramped, uncomfortable cabin with poor heating and ventilation; 3) is hard to control in combat; 4) is "deficient in speed...
...innumerable ribbons in the Pilger Valley Gophers 4-H club, and the two oldest are noted locally for their musical talent. This year, nevertheless, his wife began urging that they move away from their half section on the Elk Mountains' rim-life was hard, their three-room cabin was uncomfortable. Last week it looked as though the Kerchevals were licked; the cabin burned down. But on the next day a neighbor brought them temporary housing: two sheep wagons stocked with food and clothing and beds all neatly made up. They had offers of 22 stoves. Roofing, cement, building materials...
...black cardboard hat. "He's a Pilgrim," explained grandmother Mamie Eisenhower. In an hour Ike was on the first tee in a golf foursome. Playing 18 holes, he was off his usual game (middle 80s), and shooting in the 90s. Then the President settled down in "the Eisenhower Cabin," as the Augusta National Golf Club officially calls the $75,000, seven-room house it built for Ike. The "cabin," styled with a white-columned front porch and a steep slate roof with dormer windows, perches on a ridge by a pine grove between the clubhouse...