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...Dwight Eisenhower relaxed the ground rules, permitting his conferences to be taped for television as well as radio and authorizing the use of direct quotations...
...hours drifted by like scattered papers. One commuter got off a stalled train out in The Bronx, took a subway back to Grand Central, got oh another train and got stuck all over again. Commuter James Hagerty, Dwight Eisenhower's former press secretary and now an ABC network vice president living in Eastchester, got aboard a train at 7:45. "The goddam thing kept starting and stopping in the middle of the tunnel," said he. "You couldn't get off and get a drink. I did the crosswords and read the want ads and still couldn...
With the Senate having already passed the Administration-backed bill to restore Dwight D. Eisenhower's five-star-general rank, the House added its approval in a virtually unanimous voice vote. The only naysayer: Arkansas' diehard Dale Alford, who explained that he could not stand aside "as all the colloquy was being piled higher without being reminded, and without reminding my colleagues, especially those from the South, that we are dealing here with the man who violated the Constitution by sending illegally, and in an unwarranted spirit of indiscretion, armed, bayoneted troops into Little Rock...
...Harriman statement was really made clear. At his press conference, Secretary of State Rusk reiterated the U.S.'s longstanding commitment on West Berlin, but pussyfooted around questions on the point of whether Harriman's statement meant that John Kennedy no longer felt obliged to stand behind Dwight Eisenhower's 1959 compromise offer to the Russians-an offer to freeze the size of the Western garrisons in Berlin and to participate in Big Four espionage and propaganda control there in return for Soviet guarantees of free access to Berlin for the Western powers...
...sure-shot winners on this year's list of those who rose high from humble origins are Walt Disney, "renowned as filmland's greatest success," and Dwight David Eisenhower...