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...date, Johnson has been at pains to seek Eisenhower's advice at almost every turn in the war, but last week he skipped any tete a tete with Ike and merely said publicly: "The easiest thing we could do is to get into a larger war with other nations. We are constantly concerned with the dangers of that. At the same time, we have no desire to capitulate or retreat...
...even more complicated matter, as Washington belatedly realized when it came to the task of ac commodating the 200 journalists who will cover Johnson's entire tour. Hastily the White House sent summonses for help to two former White House press secretaries-James Hagerty, who helped arrange Ike's 1959 visit to Asia, and Pierre Salinger, who helped plan John F. Kennedy's two European jaunts. At the same time, White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers left two weeks early to make advance arrangements...
...playing it straight this time. Bob Hope and his wife Dolores signed over 80 acres of land, valued at more than $500,000, as a site for the new $5,500,000 Eisenhower Medical Center to be built in Palm Desert, Calif., where Ike and Mamie spend their winters. Earlier, the Hopes had chipped in $50,000 toward the heart, pulmonary and cancer research center...
Despite these demerits, Vogel & Co. presented a provocative cinematic circus. There were eye-grabbing sideshows enlivened by the thumps and grinds of U.S. independent film makers: exhibitions of Underground Cinema, Direct Cinema, and something the Marshall McLuhanatics call Expanded Cinema or Intermedia Kinetic Environment (IKE)-a sort of slap-happening half on and half off the screen. For movie goers who did not particularly like IKE, there was periodic excitement in the main tent. Seventeen nations were represented in a program that included ten or a dozen superb shorts and five fine features. Pursuing ever more strongly a direction evident...
...NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Harry Reasoner reports on "Young Mr. Eisenhower," which follows Ike from Abilene to West Point...