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Returning to Abilene in 1952, Dwight Eisenhower spoke of his mother and father. "They were frugal," he said, "possibly of necessity, because I have found out in later years that we were very poor. But the glory of America is that we didn't know it then." In a 1959 speech, he again drew on his memories, going back to his days as an Army subaltern, newly married to Mamie Geneva Doud, when he scrimped to buy a tiny insurance policy. "Well," he said, "I gave up smoking readymade cigarettes and went to Bull Durham and the papers...
...that cause Dwight Eisenhower fought one of his hardest and most successful battles in 1959. In January, when he formally announced his determination to balance the budget at $77 billion, the lopsided Democratic congressional majority hooted and howled. Indeed, it seemed all but impossible at a time when recession and the challenge of the U.S.S.R.'s Sputniks had ballooned the deficit to some $12 billion...
...Last Chance. Dwight Eisenhower first ran for President with the idea that he might help bring the world closer to peace. In his first term he demonstrated in the Strait of Formosa that the U.S. would stand staunchly against aggression; he demonstrated in the Suez crisis that the U.S. would resist aggression by its friends as well as its enemies, that peace was meaningless without justice. In 1956, he decided to run for re-election despite two major illnesses and the possibility that a constitutional ban against a third term might dilute his effectiveness (in the event, the 22nd Amendment...
...seem to matter much whether Mr. Nehru had actually requested or been given a guarantee that the U.S. would help India to meet further Chinese Communist aggression. What mattered was the obvious strengthening of Indian-American friendship to a point where no such guarantee was necessary." In 1960, Dwight Eisenhower's last year in office, he may in a sense be the victim of his own success in 1959. Ahead lie his trip to the Soviet Union and a series of summit conferences?all carrying a special challenge, since the U.S. has become the home of so many hopes...
...Dinah Shore. Tied for tenth spot in the survey: Monaco's Princess Grace, Britain's Princess Margaret, India's Madame Pandit. Gallup pulse takers announced the results of their similar quest for the world's "most admired" man. The most-for the seventh straight year: Dwight D. Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Next nine in the procession: Sir Winston Churchill, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Harry S. Truman, Pope John XXIII, Evangelist Billy Graham, cancer-stricken Jungle Physician Thomas Dooley (TIME, Aug. 31), Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur...