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...Broken Logjam. Less than a year after the Denver coronary President Eisenhower underwent surgery for ileitis at Washington's Walter Reed hospital. Hagerty set up a special phone connection outside the operating room, had the report of a successful operation to reporters three minutes after the surgeons had finished and 16 minutes before the President was wheeled back to his hospital room. In 36 hours Hagerty held 14 press conferences, but he generally kept newsmen and doctors apart, was by no means so lavish with medical details as in Denver. Says Hagerty: "A presidential heart attack is the property...
...still had to fend off questions. Finally, at Gettysburg, Hagerty talked to Ike in a cattle pen near the gabled farmhouse. "How are things in the outside world?" asked the President. "They're driving me crazy about re-election," said Hagerty. "Let's break the logjam." replied President Eisenhower. "Jim, why don't you go back and grin at them?" Jim Hagerty did just that, and his grin made national headlines. It was confirmed a week later when the President subtly revealed his intentions to visiting Senate Republican Leader Bill Knowland and Knowland was allowed to break...
This issue of ground-air controls is what one high U.S. official calls "the disarmament logjam," meaning that it blocks the way to agreement on related issues such as the cessation of atomic tests and the limitation of conventional weapons. Last week Secretary of State John Foster Dulles welcomed the Soviet Union's recent announcement that it would soon demobilize 640,000 troops (TIME, Aug. 22), but noted that "the military significance is not easy to judge. No official information has ever been provided as to the size of the Soviet armed forces and reserves . . . Effective inspection to verify...
...eager, perhaps overeager, to break the logjam by making concessions. But Ridgway's men were stoutly determined not to allow the Reds unlimited rights to build and repair airfields in North Korea. The Reds insisted on doing what they pleased in their own territory. Said Red China's Hsieh Fang: "We are deeply aware of the fact that you are very much afraid of our military air power...
...unhappy fact is that man occasionally works himself into a logjam; and that the logjam must be burst by violence...