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...their knee-length skirts. The former President, basing his remarks on the fact that "I have been looking at good-looking girls since I was six," sounded off with some unexpected and decidedly unpolitical opinions about ladies' fashions. "Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking," said Ike, whose 18-year-old granddaughter Anne was among the graduates, "but knees are always knobby." Then he calmed the miniskirt generation by adding with a smile: "I know you don't agree with me. Neither do the women in my family...
...neat signature at the bottom of the weekly intramural sports schedule in Amherst College's Pratt dorm spells Eisenhower. Ike's only grandson, David, 18, signs it as sports chairman of the dorm, and his classmates have been having their own kind of sport with it. They send the signature home as a souvenir, and in a matchmaking spirit have even mailed a couple of mint specimens to Smith College Freshman Julie Nixon, 17. Except for the holograph hounds, though, the little Lord Jeffreys make no fuss over David. "We have a Cabot at Amherst," explains an insouciant...
...almost seceded in the War of 1812; the Mexican-American War was loudly scorned by such Congressmen as Abe Lincoln. During the Civil War, Lincoln himself was so reviled that at one point only one Congressman backed his re-election as President. Korea became "Truman's war"-and Ike's path to the White House. In scoffing at Stephen Decatur's maxim, "Our country, right or wrong," G. K. Chesterton echoed many Americans: "It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober...
...peonage conviction against two Alabama planters who had paid Mississippi jailers to bind Negro prisoners over to them. In 1955 fate intervened with the death of the U.S. judge for Alabama's Middle District. Johnson drew up a modest resume, won the support of state G.O.P. leaders, met Ike in Washington and got the job one week past his 37th birthday...
Divorced. Edgar N. Eisenhower, 78, Tacoma lawyer and businessman, older (by two years) brother of Ike; and Lucille Dawson Eisenhower, 46, his third wife and former law secretary; on grounds of "a burdensome home life"; after 16 years of marriage, no children; in Tacoma, Wash...