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...week's end, withdrawing temporarily from the budget battlefield. Dwight Eisenhower flew to his Gettysburg farm to play host to West Germany's ancient (81) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who stopped off at the farm for an informal chat before proceeding to Washington this week for serious talks on U.S.-German problems...
Before boarding a Lufthansa Constellation for the flight to the U.S., his second in twelve months. Adenauer told newsmen with deadpan jocularity that his main purpose in visiting Gettysburg was to learn something about farming. In a figurative sense, he was indeed concerned about plowshares-the kind beaten out of swords. Hopeful sounds from the five-nation disarmament talks in London had stirred German fears that the U.S. might make some kind of arms-reduction deal with the Russians without insisting on German reunification as part of the bargain...
...Gettysburg, it turned out, Adenauer did learn something about farming. After lunch (creamed chicken), Ike guided his guest around the farm, lectured him on the care and breeding of Abderdeen-Angus cattle. Late that afternoon, President and Chancellor flew to Washington together in Ike's Aero-Commander...
...most historians: it was Lee's worst-fought battle. Columnist Pie Dufour observed in the New Orleans States: "These armchair generals are on solid ground, believe it or not." And the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer argued that Lee's own view of his performance at Gettysburg was at variance with the "Southern Oratory" used to defend it. This was reasonable, for Lee himself conceded afterwards: "It is I who have lost this fight." That, of course, opened up the question of why Lee failed. Most succinct of the answers was that of the Detroit Free Press: General...
...second battle of Gettysburg spread north and west at week's end, there was no prospect that it would be nearly as conclusive as the not altogether conclusive first one. That was the fun of the fight. It was, as North Carolina's Durham Herald noted, "one of those tempests in a teapot in which Americans delight to engage. It gives them a chance to argue without paving to decide, to debate without some vital result depending on the outcome...