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When the sheriff of Maricopa County laid aside his six-shooters and went to Washington, President Taft's cow Pauline was grazing on the White House lawn, and about the only Roosevelt anyone had ever heard of was Colonel Teddy. Dwight Eisenhower was a cadet at West Point, Lyndon Johnson was barely out of diapers, and John F. Kennedy was not even born. The world has changed almost beyond recognition since 1912, but last week, as Stanford University honored one of its most celebrated alumni with a distinguished service award, Arizona's Senator Carl Hayden, 89, was still...
...fragmented Latin America, summit conferences are rare occurrences-and successful ones rarer still. Simon Bolivar organized the first one in 1826 to press for a federation of Latin American countries, but gave up in despair when only four nations deigned to send delegates. Dwight Eisenhower gathered 19 Latin American heads of state at a summit meeting in Panama City in 1956, but his pleas for hemispheric solidarity were almost drowned out by cries for more U.S. aid funds. This week, as President Johnson flew southward to meet with the Presidents of 19-Latin American republics, there were grounds for hope...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). In "Autos, Autos Everywhere," Walter Cronkite drives the cars of the future, and Professor Dwight Bauman of M.I.T. discusses some far-out plans for fully automated highways...
Nerve Center. Since its creation in 1951 under General Dwight D. Eisenhower, SHAPE had meant a great deal to France. As the nerve center of NATO, it brought to Paris the best military brains of the Western world. The mounting and maintenance of its arsenal in France accounted for fully 25% of France's foreign earnings, employed more than 20,000 French workers...
...Noting that Meredith describes himself as an "independent Democrat," Powell observed that "anybody who is a Democrat running on the Republican ticket has got to be a little tetched in the head." No one was nasty enough to remind Powell that in 1956 he bolted his party to support Dwight Eisenhower...