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STALIN was on TIME'S cover ten times. With this week's issue, Khrushchev makes his eleventh cover appearance. He has now been on TIME'S cover more than anyone else except Ike, who, as soldier and President, holds the record...
...Regimented Herds. Indiana's Senator Vance Hartke, chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, was so carried away that he contended that former President Dwight Eisenhower should stop campaigning because of the crisis. Ike, on the stump, made his position clear. "A foreign crisis must not become an excuse for silence or submission by us Republicans," he told Midwest airport crowds. "The people of America must not be reduced to the role of a regimented herd blindly confusing total silence with loyalty...
...Adams speaks only to Ike...
Established under the will of the late Bacteriologist William A. Hinton, the first Negro professor at Harvard University: a scholarship fund of nearly $75,000 to be named in honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, in recognition of Ike's accomplishments "toward the acceptance of the principle of equal opportunity for all." Responded Eisenhower, when he heard of the fund:; "I cannot recall having been given a personal distinction that has touched me more deeply...
...President is saddening proof of how old pros can fail, it also points up a danger to which seasoned theater hands are prone, that of substituting showmanly expertise for solid substance. Despite a disclaimer, the character of President Stephen Decatur Henderson (Robert Ryan) is fairly obviously modeled on Ike, and his First Lady (Nanette Fabray) could double for Jackie Kennedy. This opportunistically split ticket suggests the synthetic viewpoint of a show that never intended to say something, but merely to trade on exalted somebodies...