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...before 1,480 tuxedoed and begowned guests in Manhattan's Coliseum last week arose former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower-to deliver an ill-tempered rebuke to a 23-year-old girl. Ike was exercised about Peace Corps Member Margery Michelmore, who had committed the sin of writing accurately about the primitive conditions that she had seen in Nigeria and having her postcard fall into the hands of leftist Nigerian students.* There was, cried Eisenhower, "postcard evidence" that Peace Corpsmen "did not even know what an undeveloped country...
...Ike was in New York to offer a coattail to Republican Mayoralty Candidate Louis J. Lefkowitz - and to use a $100-a-plate Lefkowitz dinner as a forum for his views on the present Administration. But Lefkowitz could hardly consider the occasion an unqualified success: Ike praised both Republican Congressman Paul Fino, who is running for city council president, and former Assistant Secretary of Labor John Gilhooley, as men he had known and respected in Washington. But, said he. "I have not known Louis J. Lefkowitz very well." Following Ike to the speaker's stand. Senator Jacob Javits...
...Texas. Only when he turned to one of his favorite subjects-fiscal responsibility in Government-did Ike sound like his old self. There is, he said, a "tornado of confusion'' in Washington. "We have been told we are balancing the budget, and the next day we are told how we have a $6.7 billion deficit. We have had advice and contrary advice. We have been told everything, and then it is refuted. You can see I have been confused. I believe this country is in a time of prosperity. If it cannot pay its debts, what is going...
...theory behind the program is that U.S. aid helps Yugoslavia's dissident Communist Tito from falling into the Soviet Union's smothering embrace. Such aid, said State Secretary Dean Rusk, has unquestionably helped Yugoslavia to stay independent of the Soviet bloc. The sale of the planes, said Ike, was "in the best interests of the United States...
...Believe me," said Dwight Eisenhower just before he left the White House, "I'm going to be heard from." Last week, true to his word, Ike hit the hustings for Republican Gubernatorial Candidate James Mitchell in New Jersey, unburdened himself on the problems of U.S. Government at a pair of flossy Manhattan functions. (One Eisenhower reflection: "The effect of pressure groups, the pressure groups of labor and the agricultural community . . . is the enemy of really intelligent attacks on our problems.") And when Republican National Chairman William Miller opined that Ike, not Nixon, was titular leader of the Republican Party...