Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...normal days, John Eisenhower's wife, with only part-time help, runs her own house in Gettysburg (at the edge of Ike's farm). She gets three (of four) children off to public school, does her grocery shopping at a supermarket, tries to spend a day a week at the Red Cross office-filing, typing, helping with organizational chores. She is a qualified nurse's aid, serves part-time in the local hospital, plays bridge with the girls, attends P.T.A. meetings, keeps her Washington social life to a minimum, and on the whole, keeps her children from...
They became better acquainted in 1956 on Nehru's second trip to the U.S., soon after Hungary and Suez had erupted into the headlines. Spending a day at Ike's Gettysburg farm, the two began talking at breakfast, continued through the morning until lunch. Then after a short nap, the talks went on through the late afternoon, dinner and evening-a total of 14 hours. It was, said Nehru, the longest sustained conversation he has ever had with anyone, and it touched on subjects ranging from the painting of Grandma Moses to the personality of Nikita Khrushchev...
...them are going to be settled by this book. Lieut. Colonel Boatner, onetime instructor of military history at West Point, has arranged 4,000 items in alphabetical order, among them 2,000 brief biographies of notable Civil War figures and scores of succinct action accounts from Gettysburg to mere skirmishes...
...mill villages. Scripture-quoting West Virginia-born Boyd Payton, 51, Textile Workers' director for the Carolinas, keeps his remarkably loyal Bible-belt flock together with reminders of the old Confederate heritage, likens the strikers to "those who followed Pettigrew, Fender and Pickett to the heights of Gettysburg...
...hair of pretty Evelyn Wadsworth, daughter of New York's wealthy Republican Senator (1915-27) James Wadsworth, granddaughter of Secretary of State (1898-1905) John Hay, great-granddaughter of General James Samuel Wadsworth, whose First Division held heroically firm on Gulp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg (where Symington's grandfather, William Stuart Symington I, fought on the Confederate side as a youthful captain...