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...delayed post-adjournment vacation in Newport, R.I., where the Navy base people and townsfolk have proudly dressed ship for his arrival. Length of his stay will depend on the weather; if September brings Newport rain and fog, or hurricane weather, the President will pack up for warm, balmy Gettysburg in short order. Moreover, the Middle East situation weighed heavily on the President last week; if it deteriorates, he wants to be in Washington or close by. At week's end, just in time for vacation, Ike went to Walter Reed Hospital to bring home Mamie, now convalescent after...
...closed-circuit emergency communications system: enemy aircraft were striking south from Alaska and Canada; 100 U.S. cities were blasted in atomic attack. Adding a lighter note, Mamie and Ike's grandchildren arrived by car from Washington, and next morning all drove off to the President's Gettysburg farm for a weekend of golf and relaxation...
...West took the upheaval in its summer stride, as if the appeal of freedom and erosion of despotism were now so clearly established that they needed no self-conscious exploitation. The President did not cancel his Fourth of July weekend on the farm at Gettysburg; the Secretary of State did not return from his long weekend at Duck Island, his retreat on Lake Ontario. In Washington the experts' comments on Khrushchev's apparent dominance ranged from a cynical "You can't run anything with a committee" to sweeping predictions that the beginning of the end of Russian...
...Named retiring Under Secretary of the Treasury W. Randolph Burgess, 68, of Queenstown, Md. to be permanent U.S. representative on the NATO Council with the rank of ambassador, replacing George W. Perkins, resigned. ¶Ordered, while weekending at Gettysburg, that the hurricane-blasted areas of Louisiana and Texas (see below) be made eligible for emergency financial aid from his $10 million disaster fund...
...House lawn. Correspondents duly noted the executive mansion's, first helicopter landing.* But the practice descent marked something else as well. Air Pioneer Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to use a light plane (the twin-engined Aero-Commander 560) in short hops, e.g., to and from his Gettysburg farm. Now Ike is ready to employ the air age's newest child in civil-defense evacuation and in flights of convenience over Washington's heavy ground traffic, especially to and from the National Airport. The search for machine and man safe enough to ferry him took nearly...