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...only a short stroll across what used to be the family vegetable garden to the new museum. Ike spent an hour looking at the mementos of his own life (everything from a TIME cover portrait to war souvenirs). Pausing before a jeweled dagger given him by Russian Marshal Zhukov, he remarked that it had been a "very great personal honor; when a marshal takes off his ceremonial dagger and gives it to you, that's something." Next day the Eisenhower family went to the Abilene cemetery to look at the graves of the President's parents. David Jacob...
...Everywhere," shouted Russia's Marshal Nikolai Bulganin last week to the crowds gathered in Red Square to celebrate the 67th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, "the warmongers are still continuing and increasing their activity." Such words are as expected a part of revolutionary celebrations as references to Old Glory on the U.S. Fourth of July. But last week the remarks were milder. When the usual parades were over, several representatives of the "warmongering" U.S. were among honored guests at a huge Kremlin banquet. There for the first time, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen broke bread with Premier Georgy Malenkov...
Died. Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, 73, German World War II tank commander, exponent and early practitioner of the blitzkrieg; of circulatory difficulties; in a Russian prison camp. Product of the Prussian military caste, Von Kleist contributed decisively to France's swift collapse by sending his Panzer divisions racing around the northern end of the Maginot Line. In 1945 he surrendered to two American soldiers (to avoid being captured "in the presence of common, retreating German soldiers"), was sentenced to 15 years as a war criminal by the Yugoslavs, who then turned him over to the Russians...
...final solution of Trieste seemed to leave both Yugoslavia and Italy feeling better. In Belgrade Marshal Tito spoke glowingly of "consolidation of normalization of relationships between the two countries." There were rumors that Tito would shortly make a state visit to Italy. There was also talk that Tito's favorite Italian, Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida, might now be lend-leased to Yugoslavia to make a film...
...Committee of French Good Taste awarded a prize for masculine elegance to France's seven-star General of the Army Alphonse-Henry Juin, NATO's Central European commander. Marshal Juin, said the committee, "wears civilian clothes with as much elegance as he does the French Academician's green uniform or the full-dress blues of Field Marshal of France...