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...meet shapes up, the Elis should completely dominate the field events, with a Crimson drought predicted. In the running, on the other hand, the Crimson figures to outclass Yale completely. Whether or not the running points can offset the field events deficit is the key to the meet. If the meet should have to go down to the final relays, the Crimson should win the mile, but will have a tough time taking the two-mile. McCurdy is hoping the meet will not be that tight...
...time President Eisenhower wound up his six-state, 4,500-mile tour of the drought-ravaged Southwestern and Great Plains states, his face was a windburned, cherry red; his eyes were worn from squinting through dust and sun; his once carefully polished brown shoes were flaked with windblown dust. From his brusque manner and his almost perpetual frown, aides and reporters sensed that he was thoroughly depressed by what he had seen...
Partner's Promise. Ike well knew that the current drought was generally beyond the repair of a single storm, or even a single rainy season, that the time was late for local, state and national agencies to get to work on programs that would make the most of dwindling water resources, to reseed the millions of remaining acres of Great Plains grazing land that are ready to blow. At trip's end, addressing a special drought conference at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Ike promised to ask Congress for $76 million for emergency drought relief (credit...
...schedule so strenuous that it reminded Ike-dogging Columnist Roscoe Drummond that people used to worry about the President's health. "Mr. Eisenhower," wrote Drummond wearily, "is standing this hectic drought trip better than most of the correspondents...
AGRICULTURE The Year the FIsh Died Accompanied by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton and a retinue of aides and specialists, President Eisenhower was off this week on his flying threeday, six-state inspection tour of drought-stricken areas beyond the Mississippi. What he would find was nicely summed up by Texas Rancher Stanley Walker, longtime (1928-35) city editor of the New York Herald Tribune, in a byliner for his old newspaper. Wrote Walker of the drought belt's 1956: "It was the year the windmills pumped air, the fish died in the dusty ponds...