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Then Ike went back to the farmhouse for a long weekend and a longtime love. With General Alfred Gruenther, NATO Supreme Commander and famed expert on the ancient military art of bridge-playing, Ike rounded up Neighbor George E. Allen and Dr. Snyder, and sat down at last to his first postcoronary foursome...
...terms, it was roughly as if President Eisenhower, having decided on the removal of the Governor of the Virgin Islands, found Secretary of Defense Wilson announcing his opposition, Senator Richard Russell flying off to St. Thomas to advise the governor to defy his orders, NATO Supreme Commander Alfred M. Gruenther urging fellow officers to resist the project and Secretary of the Army Brucker contradicting orders sent out by Secretary of Interior McKay...
...Gangsters." At first, the U.S. Secret Service seemed determined to help the Russians' case. Unlike the waving Russians, Ike traveled in a closed car-to save trouble, he had ordered over from Paris the 1942 Cadillac sedan he used during the war, now inherited by SHAPE Commander Al Gruenther. Swiss civilians who happened to have their hands in their pockets when the President passed were startled to have husky U.S. Secret Service men grab them and pull their hands clear. At the Palais des Nations, Britain's Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden drew up quietly in a Rolls...
...final "I-dotting and T-crossing," said one of them, was done on the shores of Lake Geneva, with two Eisenhower military colleagues: NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. General Alfred M. Gruenther, and Chairman of the J.C.S., Admiral Arthur Radford...
...NATO's General Gruenther approved the latest shift of a French division, a reporter wanted to know? Premier Edgar Faure thrust the question aside. "All the world must understand," he said as if to explain, "that for us, priority must be given to Algeria...