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...presidential car, a detail of 1,000 policemen guarded the President and his travel route. At the dinner, Ike looked beamingly relaxed, his starched, gleaming shirt front and white tie accentuated his healthy tan, and he fairly leaped to his feet to lead the applause for ex-President Herbert Hoover. When a cadet chorus from West Point serenaded him with its version of Once in Love with Amy (amended to "Mamie"), Ike chuckled with delight. But when his turn came to speak, the President was as sober as his words...
...years as a builder, Harry Morrison and his men have moved mountains, tamed rivers, built scores of dams, tunnels, power plants, railroads, highways, bridges and airfields around the world. Morrison was the driving force behind Hoover Dam; he was part of the combine that built the string of Navy airfields across the Pacific during World War II. Like many Americans, he thinks of nothing but work, and he has a simple adage to explain his passionate absorption. "A man's worth," he says, "is counted in the things he creates for the betterment of his fellow...
...mile-long reservoir, hollowed out a mountain to enclose a huge powerhouse five city blocks long, and drilled a ten-mile tunnel to carry the water to the turbines. At ultimate capacity, Alcan's powerhouse would be able to produce 1,671,000 kw., 34% more than Hoover Dam, enough electricity to match the combined output of such U.S. giants as Shasta, Bonneville and Wilson Dams...
...into his chair went his cousin, David Sinton Ingalls, 55, Bob Taft's campaign manager. No newsman himself. Dave Ingalls, a grandnephew of President William Howard Taft, became the U.S. Navy's only ace in World War I. He served as Assistant Navy Secretary for Air under Hoover, was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Ohio (1932). Lawyer Ingalls went into the Navy again, rose to the rank of commodore during World War II, worked on Taft's campaigns after coming...
Last week FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover brought the atomic-bomb threat down to earth as he warned the U.S. to be on the lookout for enemy bomb smugglers. Probable items in their equipment...