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...solid Republican, Dillon wrote foreign-policy speeches for Dewey in 1948, was an early bird for Ike in 1951. After the 1952 campaign, he was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Paris. No post could have made Dillon happier. His family owned one of the finest vineyards in the Bordeaux region, Château Haut-Brion, and his cousin, a resident of France who served his adopted country with distinction during the Occupation, was possibly the only native of the U.S. ever elected mayor of a French village. Though Dillon spoke fluent French, he took an hour's instruction daily...
Talk of this sort was right down the back alley of Ike Williams, onetime (1947-51) lightweight champion and now a $46-a-week New Jersey state employee. Appearing before Senator Estes Kefauver's hearings on the ills of boxing, Williams complained that he, too, had been underpaid throughout his career (during which he grossed $1,000,000), never had got his cut of $40,000 for two big fights from Manager Frank ("Blinky") Palermo. What seemed to nag at Williams most was that he had turned down more than $180,000 in bribes to throw fights, including...
...Watson Rink Saturday afternoon, Ike Ikauniks' two goals and two assists gave the freshmen a 5-2 victory over Exeter. The win was the fifth straight for coach Nat Harris' sextet...
...After a six-weeks, on-the-spot investigation by former Assistant Defense Secretary Tracy Voorhees, President Eisenhower set aside $1,000,000 from his $150 million special contingencies' fund for Miami refugee aid, mostly to resettle the unemployed exiles in areas offering jobs. In making available the money, Ike invoked a Mutual Security Act clause authorizing assistance to refugees from Communism, and thus for the first time the U.S. officially labeled Cuba...