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...Canberra's main deck, Dwight Eisenhower relaxed in a deck chair, turned his face to the Bahama sun in the health-seeking exercise that had brought this task force of three ships and some 2,000 men steaming south...
Extra Guests. Within 24 hours, the 80° weather worked its therapy. Queasy correspondents aboard the destroyers gathered in makeshift press rooms twice daily to hear Press Secretary Jim Hagerty relay by radio-telephone optimistic reports from Canberra. White House Physician Howard Snyder found the President coughing only occasionally. His head cold was easing, his inflamed left ear cleared. So much better was Ike feeling that he stripped off his jacket, lazily drove golf-balls from a coco mat into a canvas shield stretched down the starboard side of Canberra's open deck while the ship lolled nearly dead...
Tolerated Timing. As Canberra, her presidential flag fluttering in a desultory breeze, rocked softly in a southern sea, few at home in the spring-blossoming U.S. seemed to begrudge the President his trip, however inauspicious the timing. The Middle East was kicking up again...
...midweek Canberra (symbolically, the only U.S. Navy cruiser named for a foreign capital,* and for a British Commonwealth metropolis at that) was due in Hamilton, Bermuda, to be welcomed by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Once ashore, Ike faced a four-day conference that might well range over the major problems of the globe...
...Launched April 19, 1943, the U.S. Navy's Canberra commemorated the Royal Australian navy's Canberra, sunk by torpedo and shellfire eight months earlier during the Battle of Savo Island in the company of U.S. cruisers Quincy, Vincennes and Astoria...