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...their father, Major John Eisenhower, the children played in front of the canary-yellow barn, watched by a full platoon of sharp-eyed cameramen and reporters. Lounging patiently at the barn door was Tony, a black-and-white Shetland pony, hitched up to a two-wheeled, wicker-basket cart...
...grandfather's directions, the wind-flushed children arranged themselves with poised proficiency. Into the cart went David, 7, his assurance unmarred by a missing front tooth. From Ike came a sudden stage direction: "Hey, stop chewing gum. You're getting your picture taken." David slowed his jaws momentarily, grasped Tony's reins and waited for his sisters to get in beside him. As the photographers fired at will, Barbara Anne, 6, assumed a dignified mien, staring thoughtfully out across the presidential fields. Susan, almost 4, watched skeptically and clutched her doll, whose name changes almost daily (current...
...Tender Mouth. Reporters began firing questions. Ike said he thought Tony was a gift from Packard "Dan" Hendrickson, brother of New Jersey's former Senator Robert C. Hendrickson. But the cart's origin stumped him. Observed David, "I think it came from Texas." (It came from an anonymous friend of Ike's in New York...
...wreckage -like burned-out fireworks -and a greyish residue on some of the bits of the plane all indicated high explosives. Technicians from the FBI and the Douglas Aircraft Co. were summoned, and a crew of 40 men was dispatched to pick up every fragment of the plane, and cart it all back to Denver. There, in a warehouse near the airport, the experts began the painstaking job of fitting the fragments together again...
...flavor were changed, such as Queensway, which became Road of the People. Forty thousand schoolchildren rehearsed for days their roles as spontaneous greeters. Free special trains from the Punjab and Uttar Pradesh poured peasants in to swell the city crowd; other thousands arrived by foot, by bullock cart or by camel...