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...until the illnesses of Dwight Eisenhower was the world treated to the intimate, suture-by-suture reporting of presidential ailments that characterized the official treatment of Lyndon Johnson's operation last week. When Grover Cleveland had an operation for cancer of the jaw in 1893, he slipped away for surgery aboard a boat off Long Island. During the five months when Woodrow Wilson lay paralyzed by a stroke in 1919, the nation was scarcely aware that he was sick. Franklin Roosevelt had been ailing for months before his cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., in 1945, but the public...
...Muhlenberg, Skinner was convinced that many local youngsters would do all right if a school would just give them a chance. Impulsively he dashed off a letter to a man he had never met but had always considered "a hero of mine and a unique person in history" - Dwight Eisenhower. Skinner asked Ike's help in starting a college...
Last week Seneca Falls (pop. 7,500), nestling in central New York's bucolic Finger Lakes area, was abustle with a big celebration. Restaurant owner Toots Shor was there. So were Film Magnate Spyros Skouras, Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, Bob Hope, Harold Stassen. And Dwight Eisenhower. They were all present for the groundbreaking ceremonies for Eisenhower College...
This question had caused anxiety throughout the nation in the late forties, and in 1949 under pressure from anti-Communist groups (like the National Council for American Education), the National Education Association appointed a 20-man Educational Policies Commission, including President Conant and Dwight Eisenhower of Columbia, to examine the problem. The commission's conclusion was that "Communists should not be employed as teachers" because membership in the CP meant that they had surrendered their intellectual integrity. In a poll taken among Harvard Faculty members by the Crimson, this point of view was upheld, 218 to 108. Those critical...
...Remind me," Dwight Eisenhower once ordered an aide, "never to invite that fellow down here again...