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...Maryland's Representative Rogers C. B. Morton, newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, was enlisted to help the President fight by having the committee develop speeches and background material backing ABM. Senate Republicans who oppose the ABM bitterly condemned Morton's move. Illinois' Charles Percy charged the party leader with trying to develop a "loyalty test" over the issue...
They soon experienced a tragedy that was to stay with them always. Four years later, at Camp Meade in Maryland, their first son, Doud Dwight ("Icky"), 3, died of scarlet fever. "This was the greatest disappointment and disaster in my life," Eisenhower wrote in 1967, "the one I have never been able to forget completely. Today when I think of it, even now as I write of it, the keenness of our loss comes back to me as fresh and as terrible as it was in that long dark day soon after Christmas, 1920." At Abilene, the bodies of father...
...Nasser-oriented Arab nationalists. In November 1958, Nikita Khrushchev handed down an ultimatum to the Western allies to get out of Berlin. To resolve the issue, Eisenhower initiated a venture in personal diplomacy. Khrushchev came to the U.S., and during talks in the President's Camp David retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, agreed to lift his ultimatum. The "spirit of Camp David" was short-lived. Just before another summit conference in Paris in 1960, Khrushchev announced that the Russians had shot down an American U-2 spy plane. Not only was the conference canceled; Ike's planned trip...
...other applications: "The commonwealth has the right to enter into contracts for the purchase of needed services" to solve public problems, even though the contract may be with a sectarian institution. Similar purchase-of-services bills are also being considered this year by the legislatures of Michigan, Ohio, Maryland and Illinois...
...FISH. Shortnose sturgeon, longjaw cisco, Piute, greenback and Montana west-slope cutthroat trout, Gila and Apache trout, the desert and Moapa dace, humpback chub, Colorado River squawfish, Cui-ui, Devils Hole, Comanche Springs and Owens River pupfish, Pahrump killifish, Gila top minnow, Maryland darter and blue pike...