Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more trouble spots across the country, they were under increasing pressure to step up the President's campaigning. But if Ike's top people were jittery, Ike was not. Late one afternoon, returning to his office after a session with his golf clubs on the White House lawn, he found half a dozen of them talking nervously just outside the door. Said the President mildly: "Why don't you go home?" The remark, half rebuke, half encouragement, told them plainly what they already knew: Ike's confidence is intact...
...trim platinum blonde swung purposefully down the front walk of a luxurious ranch home in California's Coachella Valley, and, amidst a nervous flurry of hired help, stepped into a waiting air-conditioned Oldsmobile. She wheeled the Olds out past Mexican gardeners grooming the ranch-house lawn, and on the open road quickly pushed up to 80 m.p.h. In five minutes she was at the aptly named Thermal airport, where a sleek Lockheed Lodestar sat warmed up and ready for flight. She fastened herself expertly into the pilot's seat; seconds later Jacqueline Cochran Odium. 47, an orphan...
...earned his first dollar as a page boy in the state senate, where his father already was writing a record of social legislation that later served as model for the New Deal. With his father, the boy visited Woodrow Wilson's summer White House at Shadow Lawn, N.J., went on political outings to a Long Island inn near the Good Ground estate of Tammany Boss Charles F. Murphy, rode ponyback on Governor Al Smith's Great Dane, Caesar...
...crew was halved.) Before the cameras without benefit of script, Stevenson pored over mail in his study, chatted with his pretty, pregnant daughter-in-law Nancy and a somber Adlai Jr. ("We don't want our boys going to Korea as you did," says Dad), picnicked on the lawn with ex-Mayor of Philadelphia Joseph Clark, trundled a huge bag of groceries (packed mostly with wadded paper) from his car to the front porch, where he sat down, delivered a homespun talk on the high cost of living, ending with Nancy arriving to reclaim the forgotten groceries ("You were...
...week's end the President participated in ceremonies on the White House south lawn marking a three-cent stamp issue honoring labor. For the union men present, headed by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, he had a bow and a reminder: "It is sometimes well to pause for a moment and to think how far-under this system of freedom, with intelligent work-ingmen-how far we have come, with 66 million people employed at the highest real wages that have been experienced in the world's history. In so doing they have produced the strongest economy...