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...General Ike?" The people of Western Europe had awaited Ike's arrival half in dread, fearful that illness had drained his vitality and transformed the buoyant commander of World War II into a tired old man. But as the President of the U.S. plunged eagerly into a hectic round of private talks and public appearances, fear gave way to reassurance. "Ike's smile," reported Paris' Journal du Dimanche, "has again played its magic role...
...public information officer firmly told him that he must use the front door because "a commander must be seen by his troops." Nor has Norstad's youthful appetite for rest disappeared. Though he and Hawaii-born Isabelle Norstad, slim and chic in her Balmain gowns, cannot escape a hectic official social whirl, Norstad makes a ferocious effort to schedule two or three nights a week at home. He ducks off to Berchtesgaden for a weekend's fishing, plays golf when he has a chance, delights in his hi-fi set (Fairchild amplifier and pickup, Tannoy speaker), which...
...safer and more hopeful state of world affairs," said Kennan. "is not to be traversed in any giant strides." The way to lessen tension between Russia and the West is to break the conflicts down into specific problems and treat each one separately. "For this, it is not the hectic encounters of senior statesmen under the spotlight of publicity which we need; it is the patient, quiet, orderly use of the regular channels of private communication between governments...
...American Telephone & Telegraph Co. When the Fed's news broke, less than half of the A.T. & T. issue had been sold; a half hour later, the issue was sold-and oversubscribed. Dozens of other slow-moving issues disappeared completely into investment portfolios during the bond market's hectic day. The rush to buy became so great that some underwriting syndicates were forced to ration their bonds by confining allotments to members...
Teller's hectic schedule has damaged his health: suffering from ulcerative colitis, he takes daily doses of atropine and phenobarbital, sticks to a doctor-ordered diet, painful for a man who devours food with Hungarian gusto. But a damaged constitution has not damped his crusader's fervor. The late great Nuclear Physicist Enrico Fermi once said to him, with affectionate exasperation: "In my acquaintance, you are the only monomaniac with several manias." Princeton Physicist John Wheeler, who worked on both the A-bomb and the H-bomb, put it more truly. The essence of Teller's character...