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...needs to be done, but which they can not, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, by themselves." Even in recession he warned of the dangers of inflation, crusaded for a balanced budget with homilies about a well-run household and the future freedom of his grandchildren. In practice, Eisenhower budgets got bigger and taxes stayed high, but that was in spite of the Administration's ideals, not because of them...
...room fall, abruptly announced that he intended to rise phoenixlike and have a party. When Lady Churchill and his doctors vetoed the inspiration, Britain's most eminent citizen took it quite well, spent most of the day in bed accepting personal greetings from friends, children and grandchildren, and shoveling through the blizzard of congratulations that fell upon the threshold of his London town house in Hyde Park Gate. At the family luncheon table, Sir Winston presided over a mighty repast of oysters, turtle soup, roast pheasant, champagne and all the trimmings, plus an 85-lb. birthday cake doused with...
With Smiles & Songs. After the Mormons finally agreed to stop multiple marriages, Utah was admitted into the Union in 1896. Despite the limitations of monogamy, Smith has a sizable Mormon brood: eleven children, 54 grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren. His third wife, Jessie (the first two died), is a soloist in the famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir. All the family adhere strictly to the Mormon regime of no coffee, tea or alcoholic beverage. One Brazilian jovially complained to Elder Smith last week: "The danger to the world today is not Communism, but Mormonism. You people work fast in our country with smiles...
...before dawn next day, Eisenhower arrived by helicopter at the Barlow Firehouse near his Gettysburg farm so early that he had to wait five minutes for the polls to open at 7 a.m. When asked the inevitable question, Eisenhower pointed to his wristwatch, which bore pictures of his grandchildren at four points around the dial: "That's who I voted...
...Foerster, in mathematical terms, calls to (t sub zero). "For obvious reasons," he says, "to shall be called 'doomsday,' since it is on that date that N (the number of 'elements,' or people) goes to infinity, and the clever population annihilates itself. Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve. They will be squeezed to death." His equation says that doomsday will come surprisingly soon. The most likely date for it is Friday...