Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well before most of the Republican workers arrived in Gettysburg, Host Eisenhower was buzzing around the farm in his Crosley with the fringe on top, surveying the big tent that had been set up in his east pasture. Spotting two big white trailers south of the tent, he asked: "What are those buses?" Whispered Appointments Secretary Bernard Shanley: "Those are comfort stations, not buses, Mr. President." Ike whipped his glasses out of his breast pocket for a look, gasped: "Oh, for goodness' sake." At 4:30 p.m. he took his seat on the platform and the program began. First...
...recently Eisenhower's Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and foreign-policy adviser; Laurance is a businessman like his grandfather; Winthrop, after quitting Yale, winning the Bronze Star off Okinawa, and earning tabloid headlines with marriage and divorce from Bobo, has settled down to run a model farm in Arkansas; David, the scholar of the family, has a Ph.D. in economics and a vice-presidency in the Chase Manhattan Bank. J.D.R. Jr.'s one daughter, Abby, is now Mrs. Jean Mauzé. "We never wanted," the brothers say, "to walk with little steps in the big footprints...
...governments," later let it be known that a $100 million loan to Indonesia (repayable in twelve years at 2½%) had been signed. Indonesia has already had a $100 million loan from the U.S. and last March received what amounted to a gift of U.S. surplus farm commodities worth $96 million. While some Indonesian officials were saying that, by comparison with the U.S. loans, the Soviet loan was "without strings," actually the goods and services (hydroelectric and mining projects) which the Russians are offering Indonesia will place Soviet "technicians" in strategic points in the sprawling republic, which already...
...pitcher. (Whitey Ford, their best man, has a record of 18-5, has never had a 20-game season.) What they boasted was an abundance of fine fielders, men who could hold their own at the plate, men who for the most part had come up through the Yankee farm system. And there was an inexhaustible bench full of reserves...
Heal Thyself. In Kitchener, Ont., after being chased off a farm by an ax-waving farmer, shoved out of an apartment at gunpoint, threatened with death several times, punched in the nose, tossed down a flight of stairs, chased by dogs, Frank Fica decided to give up bill collecting, become a chiropractor...