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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swung behind Dwight Eisenhower, although the two had never met, and turned a strong Taft tide in New Hampshire to help Ike win the presidential primary in 1952. Adams' knowing way with politics and his efficiency as Ike's floor manager at the Chicago convention brought him close to the man who was going to be his boss. Ike liked his snappy, almost wordless directorial abilities, made Adams his campaign manager. The chief of staff for the campaign became chief of staff at the White House...
...then, could Prudent Sherman Adams get himself under obligation to Bernard Goldfine? It was, as a close friend put it, "probably a matter of drifting." Adams was a member of the New Hampshire legislature when he and Goldfine first met; Lithuanian-born Bernard Goldfine was a personable and fast-rising businessman. Adams was fast-rising too, not in bank accounts but in status. To Goldfine, money alone did not bring status, but he spent freely, gave openly. Adams was flattered by the attention; his bedrock New England heart was moved by the warmth and yearnings of an "immigrant" who wanted...
...closest friends could not tell whether it was anger or chagrin or guilt-as well as a sense of having failed the Administration-that whipped his mind. "He is not the kind of guy that can sit down and bat it around," said a staffer. "Even with his close friends, he can't be personal...
Through all the downpour, Hill and Gendebein and their Ferrari managed to stay out of trouble, and slowly they worked into the lead. At the end, none of the competition was really close. Hill finished the race after covering 2,549 miles in 24 hours at an average speed of 106.21 m.p.h. He had beaten the second-place Aston Martin by 100 miles. If the worst weather and the worst track conditions in the memory of Le Mans veterans had kept him from a speed record, Phil Hill had still set a record with which he was more than satisfied...
With encouragement from the pickup in business, the stock market rose to a new 1958 high last week. Stocks hit 478.97 in the Dow-Jones industrial average, then recovered from a sharp sell-off to close the week at 473.60. Encouraged by the Senate vote to repeal the 10% passenger and 3% freight taxes, rails closed at 119.17, a whisker under the year's high. But while the confidence of many investors returned, the skepticism of others increased. The short position, which has been rising for five months, was reported last week at 5,795,105 shares, highest since...