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...tuned to the new sounds of criticism of the Eisenhower leadership, the Democratic chiefs are returning to Washington aggressively determined to knock down Dwight Eisenhower and his Administration. Said Michigan's Republican Senator Charles Potter last week: "They will try to do to Ike what they did to Hoover in his last two years...
...Francisco's Palace Hotel before he died. Harding's attack was diagnosed at first as a stomach upset, was later complicated by bronchopneumonia. But after his death attending physicians, including Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur (sometime president of the A.M.A., president of Stanford University and later Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior) reported: "We all believe he died from apoplexy or the rupture of a blood vessel in the axis of the brain near the respiratory center." Close associates of Franklin Roosevelt agreed that his health had deteriorated shockingly in the weeks before a massive cerebral hemorrhage...
...Harsh Fact. "The trouble is," said former President Herbert Hoover in Manhattan, "that we are turning out annually from our institutions of higher education perhaps fewer than half as many scientists and engineers as we did seven years ago. The greatest enemy of all mankind, the Communists, are turning out twice or possibly three times as many as we do. Our higher institutions of learning have the capacity to train the recruits we need. The harsh fact is that the high schools are not preparing youngsters for the entrance requirements which must be maintained by our institutions training scientists...
Today, said Hoover, there is the "too prevalent high-school system of allowing a 13-or 14-year-old kid to choose most of his studies. Academic freedom seems now to begin at 14. A youngster's first reaction in school is to seek soft classes, not the hard work of science and mathematics. Also, he has a multitude of extracurricular activities that he considers more beguiling than hard work...
...Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, a library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University in 1919, held a fund-raising banquet in Los Angeles, got a message from the ex-President saluting its archives as "the records of the highest idealism yet expressed by man . . . the minutes of every important effort of men to make peace." Asked by a Manhattan reporter for his views on another matter-the health of the U.S. economy-Hoover disclosed that economic crystal gazing is no longer for him: "I'm through with that sort of thing. I'm busy writing...