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...Army band swung smartly into Waltz of the Flowers, and the two old soldiers in mufti stepped out to review their honor guard. Both were out of step with the music, but neither seemed to notice. The niceties of military precision were a remote problem last week to President Dwight Eisenhower and his guest. President Charles de Gaulle. The man of France was making his first visit to the U.S. in 15 years, not as a soldier but as a statesman, not as a pleader but as a person of power. His tall, awkward angularity was a symbol...
Mississippi Rumbles. Powell was elected to the New York City Council in 1941, and three years later ascended to Congress from a district 90% Negro. He was-and he remains-unbeatable. When he rejected the Democratic ticket in 1956 to support Dwight Eisenhower, and when Tammany Hall dumped him, the voters of Harlem remained loyal to Powell...
...self-consciously new Secretary made no attempt to emulate Dulles' personal diplomacy. Instead, he encouraged maximum use of a great foreign-policy asset-the worldwide respect and affection for Dwight Eisenhower. His relationship with the President grew from formality to confidence. Herter now meets weekly with Eisenhower by appointment, sees him before or after weekly meetings of the Cabinet and National Security Council, confers frequently by phone...
...will test no more nuclear deterrent weapons while Dwight Eisenhower is still in the White House, even if negotiations bog down. The testing moratorium has run 17 long months already. Ike is not likely to break it before the summit conference in May, his mission to Moscow in June, the political conventions in July, or during the campaign months...
...Manhattan dinner last week Professor Maurice Ewing, director of Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory, received the first $25,000 Vetle-sen Prize-for high achievement in the earth sciences (geology, seismology, oceanography, etc). From Columbia's onetime president, Dwight Eisenhower, came a message of congratulation; from assembled speakers came paeans of praise. But as the tributes converged on his rumpled head, Maurice Ewing, 53, most likely was thinking about a ridge in the floor of the Pacific which, according to one of his theories, should have a crack running along its peak...