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Three Days of Golf. The heavy cruiser nosed up to Baker Dock in Pearl Harbor. Ike stood in the Hawaiian sunshine on the main deck. Tanned and fit, he came ashore to a rousing welcome, complete with honor guard, hula dancers, a lei of red carnations, and a motorcade tour of Honolulu...
...Charles Wilson and J.C.S. Chairman Omar Bradley to Pearl Harbor to preside over a series of conferences on the military aspects of the situation. By plane and helicopter he brought his new Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his close White House advisers to join him aboard the cruiser for high-policy discussions. By the time the two task forces joined in Hawaii, they would be able to match and mesh their potentialities and plans. Somewhere after that, the President-elect of the U.S. would make his decisions...
...kept his feelings to himself as he flew toward Guam. At Guam, he, Wilson, Brownell and the correspondents left the planes and boarded the Navy's U.S.S. Helena, a heavy cruiser, for the trip back to Pearl Harbor. The Helena's wireless crackled, and when the cruiser hove to off Wake Island, a helicopter brought aboard Ike's Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, General Lucius Clay, Budget Man Joe Dodge, Emmet Hughes, campaign speechwriter who is to be on Eisenhower's White House staff...
...ocean-front street in Miami Beach last week, 500 dealers swarmed around 16 brand-new trailers to see what was new in mobile homes for 1953. Most startling sight at the annual exhibition of Mid-States Corp., biggest trailer company in the U.S., was a lumbering, 65-ft. Executive Cruiser, with bar, built-in TV, movie screen, radiotelephone, conference room, and sundeck from which a model dived into a portable swimming pool. Price: $75,000. But the trailer that interested dealers most was the National, a smaller model with which Mid-States President William MacDonald, 44, hopes to boost...
...stayed at this for three years. By 1943, the war had started, and Maras was able to qualify for a Navy commission. He spent most of his time on the U.S.S Boston, a heavy cruiser, and consequently got very little chance to participate in athletics. The Boston was caught--with the rest of the Third Fleet--in the Great Typhoon...