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...There was widespread admiration through the free world for Dwight Eisenhower's dignified rebuff of Khrushchev's wild demands, but a concern-not confined to the U.S.-that Washington's handling of the U-2 affair had been clumsy and inept...
...Khrushchev seriously needed an accommodation with Western powers and wanted it against right-wing domestic pressures and the opposition of Red China, he had recklessly forfeited the good will of Dwight Eisenhower, the one U.S. leader with the popularity and prestige to convince a doubting U.S. of Russian good intentions...
...whose profession was synonymous with secrecy, Pilot Francis Gary Powers continued to be the most-talked-about man of the week-in the U.S., in allied countries and in Russia, where his pictures were plastered on exhibition walls and where he would soon oust both Dwight Eisenhower and Mark Twain as the best-known American. Bit by bit, a more complete story of his ill-fated U-2 jet flight to Sverdlovsk emerged from the grim, grey silence of international espionage...
...hope which Khrushchev held out for future summit negotiations was deliberately insulting. "We would think," he said, "that there is no better way out than to postpone the conference of the heads of government for approximately six to eight months." Harshly, he underscored his point: by then, Dwight Eisenhower will no longer be President of the U.S. "The Soviet government," declared Nikita, "is deeply convinced that if not this Government of the U.S., then another, and if not another then the next one, would understand that there is no other way out but the peaceful coexistence of the two systems...
...White House underlings have often described it, Dwight Eisenhower's every-morning breakfast consists of orange juice, a steak, coffee-and generous portions of the Washington Post and Times-Herald, the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune, along with occasional tastes of the Baltimore Sun and the Chicago Tribune. But at the President's press conference last week. Pat Munroe of Chicago's American asked Ike himself about his newspaper-reading habits...