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...Geneva conference's Big Four foreign ministers-U.S.'s Christian Herter. U.K.'s Selwyn Lloyd, France's Maurice Couve de Murville. Russia's Andrei Gromyko-who were in Washington to attend the funeral of John Foster Dulles. In a pointed warning to Gromyko, Ike told the Big Four that he hoped for enough "measure of success" at Geneva to make a Russia-coveted summit conference "desirable and useful...
President Eisenhower's popularity, which dropped to an alltime low during the 1958 recession, has bounced back to its highest point since the summer of 1957, when Ike was pushing hard on his atoms-for-peace plan. In reply to its standard question ("Do you approve or disapprove of the way Eisenhower is handling his job as President?"), the Gallup poll last week reported new figures...
...Gallup offered little cheer to Ike's Republican Party. Asked to name the party of their choice, 59% of those questioned picked the Democrats, 41% the Republicans. By contrast, the G.O.P. had polled 43.5% of the vote in gloomy 1958, 41.5% in 1936, the blackest year in the party's history...
...delighted," the President said warmly to the four top college students who marched into his White House office last week. Ike was pleased not just with their extraordinary academic records. Each of the students is bright, talented, spirited-and blind. Ike handed them $500 checks signed by Manhattan's Recording for the Blind Inc., which supplies the blind scholars (and 750 others in some 300 colleges) with free textbooks on 16½-r.p.m. records, made by 1,200 volunteers in every walk of life. The four prizewinners...
...Because we are blind," Student Cowan told the President, "we feel that we must try to do our best." Said Ike, in wonder: "I'll tell you, you are doing your best...