Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's greatest pleasure, however, was in a guest who turned up at the ranch two hours after his own arrival. Grandson David Eisenhower, 7, had been spending two weeks at a nearby boys' camp, and when Ike realized how close it was, he jumped at the chance to have David all to himself for the first time. Barbara Eisenhower agreed to let her son spend five days with Grandfather before he returned to his home in Fort Belvoir, Va. That night Ike set the table himself, and placed a steaming bowl of his vegetable soup in front...
...House Guest. Five minutes after shooting Kerr, Carpenter lurched to the second-floor apartment of 31-year-old Leonard Powell, a burly (6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs.) truck driver. Tottering, dripping blood, "looking crazy," Carpenter forced his way in at gunpoint, ordered Powell and his wife, Stella, into the living room. Diane, 3, was asleep. Robert, 7, came in to say goodnight. Powell stared silently at Carpenter, nodded at his pistol. Gunman Carpenter put it out of sight until the boy went to his bed. Stella helped make bedsheet bandages, obediently fed the guest bananas and milk as Carpenter...
Front Row Center (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Sally Forrest in Guest in the House...
...guest was a pollster who had just completed a postcard survey, ordered by De Sapio, as to the presidential preferences of Democratic voters in New York state. De Sapio places great stock in his polls, used them to confirm his choices of Robert Wagner (over Vincent Impellitteri) for mayor of New York City in 1953, and of Harriman (over Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.) for governor in 1954. Says De Sapio: "You can't impose your will on the people any more. If they select the candidate in a poll, they'll elect him." De Sapio's surveys...
...Near Victorville, Calif., Goerge McCarthy was trying to make ends meet by running a small guest ranch. Two years ago he sold a piece of Mojave Desert land that had cost him $180. His price: $250,000. Today he is subdividing 3,300 acres that cost him less than $1 an acre into half-acre tracts to sell for $2,000 apiece...