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...answer to Khrushchev's last-month memorandum on Berlin. The State Department will release a White Paper on Berlin to further justify the Western stand. The President this week will also summon congressional leaders to brief them on U.S. plans (his top aides have already visited Gettysburg to inform Dwight Eisenhower), issue a statement on Berlin at his midweek press conference, hold a planning session of the National Security Council...
With the cheers of the aroused Republicans still ringing in their ears, Ike and Mamie Eisenhower went off for a weekend in New York (see SPORT) before slipping back into the busy routine of retirement in Gettysburg. No one believed that the former President could be anything but busy in retirement, despite his announced intention several times to spend his days sitting in a rocking chair...
...habits, and he does not have to wait long for his breakfast-orange juice, a small filet mignon, and toast. By 7:30, Ike is on his way to his office, four miles away in a red-brick building that was once the home of the president of Gettysburg College...
...unwritten law that U.S. Presidents cannot be seen hanging around race tracks. For eight years, while he was President, Dwight D. Eisenhower hewed to convention. But last week, Horse Fancier Eisenhower (he has quarter horses at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm) stood in the rain at New York's Belmont Park with 51,585 other breed improvers to watch the 93rd running of the Belmont Stakes. For Ike, as for everyone else, the star attraction was Carry Back-a little, long-tailed colt who had won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. and needed only the Belmont to become the first...
...Oregon-born son of a Texas college president, Everett is the great-great-great-nephew of one of history's unlucky men: Edward Everett, the Massachusetts Senator (and onetime Harvard president) who delivered the two-hour "main" Gettysburg address, only to be upstaged in two minutes by Abraham Lincoln. Swift descent also once felled John Everett, when at 15 he took a sleepwalking dive from a third-floor window, breaking 36 bones and earning 4-F status in World...