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...superficial signs of similarity were more obvious each week. Instead of presidential golf at Palm Springs and Gettysburg, there was presidential golf at Palm Beach and Middleburg. New Frontier "task forces" had taken over from Eisenhower-era "study committees," but little seemed to be happening. Dwight Eisenhower had been criticized for his wandering press conference syntax; last week's Kennedy conference was as notable for its shapeless prose as for its muted tone...
Looking particularly hale at his farewell before heading for Gettysburg with Mamie, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 70, fielded a press query on the space race ("It's not necessary to be first in everything. Our people are to be congratulated for doing as much as they have"), climbed aboard his private railroad car, was still signing autographs when the engineer abruptly ended his two-month California holiday...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Carl Sandburg at Gettysburg" presents the poet-historian evoking the great battle...
What does it mean to be religious? Psychologist John D. Shand, of Pennsylvania's Gettysburg College, interviewed 142 ministers, priests and rabbis, last week reported to a meeting of fellow psychologists that he had found five basic conceptions of the religious person...
Shortly after leaving Gettysburg to unlimber on Palm Springs' Eldorado links, Dwight D. Eisenhower insisted that he hadn't "a plan beyond this next stroke." But the lure of the pen soon proved mightier than the mashie, and the war chronicler-whose 1948 Crusade in Europe sold 1,500,000 copies and earned him $635,000-promised an updater. Ike's subject: "My eight years in the presidency and the lessons I believe can be drawn therefrom...