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...some Washington eyebrows were arched, if only briefly, at the news of Percy's "special fund," which to date has collected about $25,000. Cynics recalled Richard Nixon's 1952 troubles when he had to deliver his nationally televised "Checkers" speech to keep from being dumped as Ike's running mate because he had accepted $18,000 in private contributions for political expenses. Funds from the Percy Group are strictly earmarked for business-as they were for Nixon. Percy himself cannot touch the money and has no need or desire...
...news reports made us sound like fugitive lovers," laughed Amherst Sophomore David Eisenhower, 19, Ike's only grandson, commenting on the roundabout announcement of his engagement to Smith College Sophomore Julie Nixon, 19, Dick Nixon's younger daughter. The youngsters, who will not marry until after graduation, were only casual friends in Washington but have been seeing each other steadily since they found themselves at neighboring colleges; at Thanksgiving, David presented Julie with a diamond ring. Still, no announcement was made, Julie recalled, until her father "called me before he went on a TV show to find...
Tonight's opposition includes four former Harvard standouts, Ike Ikauniks, Baldy Smith, Godfrey Wood, and Billy Lamarche. Seats are unreserved and admission is by coupon No. 2 at the rink...
Black & White. Appointed to the federal judgeship for northern Mississippi by President Eisenhower in 1958, Lawyer Clayton, a Democrat who supported Ike, had never shown any signs of dissatisfaction with the Southern way of life. Quite the opposite. "I lived in the era when Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal, was the law of the land," he says now. I had no quarrel with it." Indeed, he had so little quarrel with Mississippi ways that he rose to command one of the state's National Guard divisions (which was totally segregated), ranked as a major general when...
These men take Tombstone, Arizona, as their hunting preserve. Garner (Wyatt Earp) and Ryan (Ike Clanton) kill each other's brothers for a start, then proceed to the unrelated near and dear. Since Earp rides a white horse, he's the good guy. Clanton's bad--he sets other men to do his killings and, supposedly under his influence, they take aim when an enemy's back is turned and his pistol is glued to his holster...