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...Ga.has spent 45 years influencing military legislation in the House of Representatives, where he is known fondly as "Uncle Carl," "The Admiral" and "The Swamp Fox." Since World War II, Chairman Vinson of the Armed Services Committee has been doing a slow burn while Pentagon leaders under Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy refused to use money voted by Congress for specific projects. Examples: construction of a Navy supercarrier in 1949; ordering additional Air Force B-525 in 1961. Last week Uncle Carl finally lost his temper over the issue of how much control Congress should have over...
...inspiration for Grundyism, a byword for stiff-collared conservatism), started off by backing a political nobody: Superior Court Judge Robert E. Woodside, 57. Then U.S. Senator Hugh Scott jumped into the race, ready to step aside if Scranton ran, and touched off a major melee by quoting Gettysburg Republican Dwight Eisenhower as saying he would "rather see a primary fight than be forced to take a miserable ticket"-a thinly disguised blast at Woodside. The Old Guard reluctantly retired Woodside, brought out U.S. Representative James E. Van Zandt, 63, for Governor. At week's end they finally abandoned...
...When Dwight Eisenhower reached past nine senior generals in August of 1959 to select David Monroe Shoup as commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, no one was more surprised than Shoup himself...
From a onetime member of the U.S. Army's White House detail came a partial explanation of Sunday Painter Dwight Eisenhower's striking success at capturing likenesses in his portraits. Confessed ex-Private Ray Seide. now art director of a Manhattan ad agency, in an Esquire article: "When we received the photograph or illustration [on which the Eisenhower painting was to be based], I would put it into a projector. If the machine didn't throw an image large enough for the size of the canvas the President wanted, I would draw the subject larger. Then...
...form of clean-shaven, well-dressed, steely-eyed George Romney, erstwhile president of American Motors and now Republican candidate for the governorship of Michigan. In the drama and suddenness of his rise to political prominence, he is in the great American tradition of Woodrow Wilson, Wendell Willkie and Dwight Eisenhower...