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Embree Western rolled his way over an impressive field which included Dwight Stones, the current world record holder in the event. Stones, was unable to match his record jump of 7 ft. 5in, set two weeks...
Died. Kay Summersby Morgan, 66, General Dwight Eisenhower's secretary, chauffeur and confidante during World War II; of cancer; in Southampton, N.Y. Irish-born daughter of a retired British officer, Summersby, a former actress and model, was assigned to drive Eisenhower during an inspection tour of London in May 1942. Her constant association with the general throughout the war stirred rumors that she was his mistress. The speculation gained credence from Harry Truman's statement in Plain Speaking; he had seen a letter from Ike to General George Marshall saying he planned to divorce Mamie to marry Summersby...
...Adams resigned as President Dwight Eisenhower's chief aide in 1958 after admitting that he had accepted the coat and other gifts from Textile Manufacturer Bernard Goldfine...
...post-Watergate goal of the judicial system. "Take Dick Kleindienst," he said, referring to the former Attorney General. "He made a successful plea bargain, received a tap on the back. Yet he lied to a Senate committee when he was chief law-enforcement officer of the U.S. Dwight Chapin [a former Nixon aide], on the other hand, was scared, unfamiliar with the law, but he faces ten to 30 months for two far less important lies [about the "dirty campaign tricks" of a Nixon hired hand]. I'm happy for Kleindienst, sad for Chapin...
...bald look, rather passé in politics since the days of Dwight Eisenhower and Speaker Sam Rayburn, has again become topical now that Jerry Ford is Head of State. During his recent senatorial campaign, for example, Utah Republican Senator Jake Garn plastered his state with billboards reading: "Garn-candid. Garn-decisive. Garn-aware. Garn-bald." He won by 25,000 votes. When some of his constituents suggested that he wear a toupee, California's Democratic Senator Alan Cranston replied: "If I went to all that trouble to cover up my head, editorial writers might theorize that I was covering...