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...G.O.P.'s Ike-for-President campaign: the big year was at hand, and Ike had still to speak out in unmistakable terms. Only Ike could give the definite word on his intentions, and there was little hope that he would before the important NATO conference in Lisbon on Feb. 2. To the Ike-man-in-the-street, this was plenty of time, but for the professionals, it meant more weeks of worry and hope...
Some of these cries are the kind that diplomats, like traders in a bazaar, make in the first stage of negotiations; what matters is their final stand at Lisbon in February. But Eisenhower took no chances. For an hour and a half, he addressed the Twelve Apostles, arguing that they adopt the Wise Men's program as the only hope of establishing military "equilibrium" with Russia within twelve months...
...church." But though the country's press has long been silent on the existence of Portugal's 15,000 Protestants, Mackay reports that they enjoy relative freedom. Protestants can get permission to open new places of worship and hold public meetings. Dr. Mackay's presence in Lisbon and a public lecture he delivered in Spanish on "Protestantism and Latin Culture" were reported in the press. The Protestants' "spirit is buoyant and in their ranks are distinguished members of the legal and medical professions...
Married. Consuelo ("Conchita") Cintron Verrill, 29, flashy Chilean-American lady bullfighter who developed a unique style beginning with rejoneo (mounted bullfighting) and ending with toreo (foot fighting), has killed 800 bulls in her 13 years in the ring; and Don Francisco Castelo Branco, 32, Portuguese businessman; in Lisbon. After the ceremony, Conchita announced her plans for the future: to quit the ring, settle down and write her memoirs...
Wine from Lisbon. Pastoral, warm, gracious-so flowed life in Mt. Vernon. Washington overextended himself in land and fell in debt for a while. But he skillfully rotated his crops at Mt. Vernon, grew wheat when others were growing tobacco, and kept on prospering. He was able to ride in a coach & six and to lay down in his cellar pipes of fine Madeira and the "best Lisbon wine...