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Once the Hotel Rancho Las Cruces, it is now a private club with a list of eminent patrons. Dwight Eisenhower was there recently as the guest of Charles Jones, president of the Richfield Oil Co. W. Alton Jones, executive-committee chairman of Cities Service Co., was on his way to meet Ike there when he died in the plane crash at Idlewild with $62,690 in his pockets...
...target. It was the first time that he had seen an ICBM fired. Then, in the relaxing atmosphere of California's Palm Springs area, where he was a weekend guest at Bing Crosby's estate, Kennedy paid a 50-minute call on another sun seeker, former President Dwight Eisenhower. They chatted mainly about world affairs...
...painful necessity at best, a downright giveaway at worst. This feeling has encouraged Congress to make a tradition of wielding an ax at presidential foreign aid requests. Last week, President Kennedy asked Congress to appropriate $4.9 billion for foreign aid in fiscal 1963, the biggest aid request since Dwight Eisenhower's $5.1 billion whopper in 1953. Noting that it is "always open season" on foreign aid, Kennedy insisted that the sum was "vital to the interests of the U.S." and "cannot, I believe, be further reduced." But after such customary formalities, the President made a spirited challenge aimed...
...Post World War II American--more and more white collar; more and more a suburban thinker if not a suburban dweller, more and more concerned with only his own. A citizen in a land which suddenly had world leaders , prosperity, nuclear power, sound, small foreign playboy magazine, Fidel Castro Dwight David Eisenhower thrust...
...emphasis upon the authority of Scripture, the pulpit has been the pride of Protestantism. Nowhere has this pride been more evident than in the U.S., where sermon-centered churches-notably the Baptists and Methodists-flourished with the conquest of the frontier, and such preachers as Henry Ward Beecher and Dwight Lyman Moody became as famous as Presidents, and perhaps as influential...