Word: ike
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...curious crowd of 400 encircled him at the first tee, the President said: "I'd like to hit a practice ball, but I don't see how I can. They've sure got confidence in me." After security men cleared a small gap in the crowd, Ike blasted through it -"Good shot." the crowd murmured, and Ike shot an 89. Next morning, who should turn up at Culzean Castle but the President's old golf-playing and bridge-playing buddies, William Robinson, chairman of the board of Coca-Cola, and W. Alton ("Pete") Jones, chairman...
...Enshrining once again a White House press corps ditty, Ike's Millionaires, which goes: We make the Stock Exchange our hangout...
...whenever Ike wants us near...
...President of the U.S. had thrown him all session. The assignment: keep the House from overriding the President's veto of Congress' cherished $1.2 billion rivers and harbors bill (TIME, Sept. 7), a pork barrel packed with projects dear to the folks back home-and offensive to Ike because it called for 67 new projects not in the Administration's budget. The bill originally rolled through the House on a thunderous voice vote, rumbled on through the Senate with a hogshead-sized bipartisan majority...
...licked, but still full of fight. He watched closely as Minnesota's Walter Judd tallied each vote. As the clerk started back through the list to check those who had not answered the first call, Halleck's breaks came with a rush. Two of his Ike-backing votes, landed by overdue planes, walked into the House. The three-man G.O.P. delegation from Kansas swung over to Ike. Another Congressman muttered, "I'm not chicken," swung too. When the roll call ended. Walter Judd excitedly whispered, "We're one vote ahead...