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...been a place to hide," said Five-Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 70, after he reviewed 2,500 West Point cadets and heard a citation honoring him, "I would have gone off and bawled like a baby." But Ike stood smartly at attention for 30 minutes, doffed his grey fedora as plumed battalion commanders saluted him with sabers. Later the old grad (class of '15), who made a cadet career of breaking as many Academy rules as he dared, became the fourth man to win the Sylvanus Thayer Medal* (named for a 19th century superintendent known as the Father...
...some old shoes and an old hat, picked up a snappy walking cane, and hiked through the snow-covered streets of Washington with his Choate roommate, New York Adman K. Le Moyne Billings. Later in the day he stretched his legs again. Hiding behind dark glasses and a grey fedora, he walked almost unrecognized among the skiers and sleigh riders of Battery Kemble Park. This week the White House physician, Dr. Janet Travell, hopes to get him to relax by swimming for the first time in the indoor pool that was built for Franklin Roosevelt...
Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who in keeping with his new office now wears a discreet grey fedora instead of a wide-brimmed Stetson, is taking seriously his responsibility as chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council. After a Kennedy task force recently submitted its report on the nation's space goals, Lyndon flew off to Texas to study the document, came up with some recommendations of his own. Among them: tighter Government control of space activities, a priority list for projects, a crash program, if necessary, to develop more powerful rocket boosters...
Mitchell lifted the lid off a black hatbox, revealed a yellow cake shaped like a fedora, with a dark chocolate hatband and the initials J.P.M. in white. Said he: "The first piece I'm going to cut I will send to R. Conrad Cooper, who is the management negotiator for the steel companies and certainly responsible in part for this performance. The second piece I will send to David McDonald, the president of the Steelworkers, who shares responsibility. The third I will eat myself...
...Force General Nathan Twining, his rakish fedora and hail-fellow grin somewhat more suggestive of a precinct boss on election night than a hard-working Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, showed up in mufti, as he often does, for a brass-tacks Monday conference with the President on military matters...