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Opposed on principle to Government interference in collective bargaining, Dwight Eisenhower had given the steel companies and the United Steelworkers of America plenty of time to arrive at a settlement. Since last May, on and off, Steelworkers President Dave McDonald and U.S. Steel Executive Vice President R. Conrad Cooper, head of the industry negotiating team, had glared and snapped at each other across the bargaining table in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel without making any detectable progress...
...breakoff of negotiations with steel supplies running out and ripples of unemployment spreading across the land cracked Dwight Eisenhower's already worn-thin patience. "I am not going to permit the economy of the nation to suffer, with its inevitable injuries to all," he told his press conference. "I am not going to permit American workers to remain unnecessarily unemployed...
...always have trouble with bad colds," a husky-voiced Dwight Eisenhower told newsmen last week. "If I can get five days out in the desert somewhere . . . I am going, quickly." No sooner said than gone. Next day, after a luncheon chat with Italy's visiting Prime Minister Antonio Segni, Ike hopped 2,200 miles in his Boeing 707 jet to Palm Springs, Southern California's sunny sandbox. Self-prescribed for a cold he had caught in Scotland: eight lazy days in dry, hot Coachella Valley, at the comfortable La Quinta home of George E. Allen, professional...
...besieged by movie stars, song pluggers, faith healers and unfrocked Indian chiefs. This time, tight security kept away most of the interlopers. Taking his ease with the boys, marking time until this week's return to Washington and a visit from Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Dwight Eisenhower was serenely secluded, well on the way to conquering his nagging cold...
...tensions. It is within your hands." Nikita Khrushchev, unchallenged ruler of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its satellites, was in an unusual position. His was the line that the U.S. was blocking world peace. Yet, in the strangely relaxed and friendly atmosphere of the guarded mountain retreat, Dwight Eisenhower, determinedly serious, was pinning him down to the specific issue of Berlin as the major threat to peace. Again and again the President refused to be led down the semantic path to a discussion of such generalities as disarmament and trade. Again and again he brought the conversation back...