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...spokesmen for Big Steel and the United Steelworkers of America settled down to grim negotiations on a new contract in Manhattan last week (see BUSINESS), the President of the U.S. announced that he was looking on-and invited his 175 million fellow citizens to look with him. Dwight Eisenhower plainly wanted no settlement that would result in higher steel prices and another wave of inflation. And in saying so he came closer than ever before to transgressing his own stern rule against mixing in the private affairs of business and labor...
...first time, Dwight Eisenhower stood on the edge of a congressional defeat. At issue was S. 144, the relatively trivial Rural Electrification Administration bill, which would transfer power to approve or reject REA loans from Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson to power-hungry Clyde Ellis, director of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. To farm-state representatives of both parties the bill was alluring; Ellis for weeks had been bringing his regional managers into Washington to buttonhole Congressmen. As drafted by Benson-hating Senator Hubert Humphrey, moreover, S. 144 was a direct slap at the bedeviled Agriculture Secretary and, indirectly...
...class of 1919 at West Point, four-star Generals Alfred Gruenther, Albert Wedemeyer and Nathan Twining, were subjects of TIME covers, and each one signed. Gruenther also helped get the autograph of Field Marshal Montgomery, who wrote across his cover portrait, "Montgomery of Alamein." Another West Pointer, Dwight D. Eisenhower, class of 1915, has appeared on TIME'S cover more than anyone else-13 times since 1942, as soldier, candidate and President*-and has signed two covers for Carter...
There was no doubt that John Foster Dulles' illness hung heavily on the President's mind in everything he did. "It is like losing a brother," he had said; and from Dwight Eisenhower, brought up one of seven brothers in Abilene, Kans., the remark had deep meaning. Nor was there any doubt that the President meant to keep Dulles on his staff, at least in name, as long as Dulles was able...
...free world, the British press has been bursting with local pride. And in the process of building Macmillan up, even such ordinarily responsible papers as the Daily Telegraph and the weekly Observer have joined the raucous "popular" press in pot-shooting at an old friend. The target: U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, depicted in the British press as a sick, doddering old man who cannot possibly match wits with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev at a summer summit conference...