Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PRESIDENCY Week of Reckoning Briefcase-carrying relays of U.S. civilian and military leaders jogged into Augusta's National Golf Club last week to assist vacationing Dwight Eisenhower in nailing down the framework of a balanced budget for fiscal 1961 (beginning next July 1). The week's first wave from Washington, a Pentagon platoon led by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, met with Ike for four hours in the National's trophy room, was firmly reminded that the armed forces must accommodate themselves to a fairly level rate of spending. Emerging from the key session: a decision to keep...
Dunster: Freshman Jubilee Committee; Combined Charities Drive, Co-Chairman; House Soccer, Golf; Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Advertising Manager, Business, Manager; Junior Usher...
...visit last month, Dwight Eisenhower last week stepped from Columbine III at Augusta's Bush Field. "Boy," said he, "this is better weather." Budget problems pressing, his strenuous mission to eleven countries only three weeks away, the President was eager to relax. Sped to the Augusta National Golf Club, he swapped his brown business suit for slacks and a sports shirt, was on the practice tee within 15 minutes...
...grey and tan checkered sports shirt, replied confidently: "Don't worry, it will burn off." Sure enough, sunshine poked through the clouds that afternoon; after some paper work at his office above the pro shop and lunch with Mamie and the Aliens, Ike had his round of golf...
Meanwhile, in his office above the pro's shop at the Augusta National Golf Club, President Eisenhower began hammering out the domestic budget for fiscal 1961 with his top Cabinet officers. "Gentlemen," he had told them at a session fortnight before in Washington, "you are going to have to prove each item to me." Despite pressures of rising prices and cries for ever more costly military hardware, the President was determined to make a balanced budget his top domestic priority...