Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shook hands with Mamie and the President. Said Ike, just back from an 18-day vacation: "It's a privilege and an honor to welcome you to this land-to this house." Next day Ike and Nehru set out to talk in private at the President's Gettysburg farm-which Ike and Mamie had heretofore stubbornly refused to use as headquarters for state visitors...
...next couple of years he played superlative baseball while snaffling his hot, competitive temper under the taunts and slurs of his opponents and even some of his teammates. It was the only compromise he ever made on the ball field. And once he had won his particular Gettysburg, he took the snaffle off to become one of the game's tartest-tongued, terriblest-tempered performers...
...time when the world is indeed out of joint, it is fortunate that the leaders of the two largest democracies are getting together on a Gettysburg farm to chat about setting it right. Between them, certainly, President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Nehru share more popular support than any other two men in the world, and in their conversations this week the two great leaders are undoubtedly conscious that many of those supporters are laying great odds on the good that can come of the historic meeting...
Getting Some Air. At week's end, with no Soviet attack materializing out of the intelligence jigsaw puzzle, the President ducked out of the White House for a breather. In his twin-engined Aero Commander he flew to his farm at Gettysburg, donned a brown-and-black-checked cap, a hip-length windbreaker and heavy leather boots, and puttered about in the crisp fall weather "to get some air." Happily he inspected his 20 head of cattle and chatted with the neighbors who accompanied him. ("She's a pip! . . . We ought to hold on to that...
...seem to spell his first name right. They called him "Abram" Lincoln-and, in the very story of his nomination, so did the New York Times. (Soon afterward, papers began running instructions on how to pronounce "Lincoln.") The Chicago Times repeatedly misquoted him in its report of the Gettysburg address ("Four score and ten years ago . . ."). To its credit, the New York Times ran a letter-perfect full text of the address (followed by "continued applause"), though the reader could not discover that Lincoln had even spoken at Gettysburg until he had plowed through hundreds of words about the memorial...