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...President a nine-room apartment on the castle's top floor. Visiting the place in 1951, Mamie Eisenhower had said: "It's like a fairy tale-the kind we read about in Grimm's story book." Now, greeted by the Marquess of Ailsa and the Earl of Weymss and March, the President rolled into Culzean to rest up. "No one." said one of the Scotsmen in polite warning, "will bother him or fuss...
...political fortune from Ike's visit, and in Britain, where a general election is looming, the fact was particularly pertinent. Playing the genial host far more actively than was strictly necessary, wily Harold capitalized on his opportunity to the utmost. Although the Queen's representative, the Earl of Gosford. was on hand as a symbol of the head of state to greet Eisenhower at the airport, it was the Prime Minister who suavely climbed into the limousine to share Ike's first triumphal tour of London. And on television with his famous guest, Macmillan took advantage...
...team is largely staffed with ancients and has-beens. Regular First Baseman Earl Torgeson, 35, had not done much since 1951, when he drove in 92 runs for the Boston Braves. Third Baseman Billy Goodman, 33, had a brief moment of fame nine years ago, when he won the batting title with the Red Sox. Early Wynn, the team's leading pitcher (18-9), is a creaking 39. In the bullpen are Turk Lown (9-2), a late-bloomer at 35, and Gerry Staley (7-3), 39, who seemed washed up six years ago with the St. Louis Cardinals...
Richard Nixon, by Earl Mazo. An expert biography, flattering but far from a campaign puff piece...
...other workers are hurting, lining up for state unemployment aid, living off their wives' jobs. Only a handful get emergency help from the United Steelworkers; the union has no national strike war chest. Despite their handicaps, the workers are also determined to see the strike through. Said Earl Bester, boss of 22,000 strikers in the Lake Superior region: "I won't say we're happy, but we're not weakening. We can hold out till spring if we have...