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Confusion Compounded. Early in the week intelligence reports to the vacation White House in Newport, R.I. convinced the President that it was time to make the U.S. position unmistakably clear. U.S. Navy destroyers were escorting Nationalist supply ships to the three-mile limit off Quemoy, but the Nationalists were being clobbered on the beaches (see FOREIGN NEWS) by Communist artillery. It was not impossible that a U.S. ship would be hit, since one obvious Chicom aim was to provoke the U.S. into aggressive-looking acts. (The Reds even sent out false directional signals in hopes of luring American planes over...
Three months ago Ike had met a similar barrage with his now-famed "I need him." But last week an aide at the Summer White House in Newport said: "Nobody knows right now if Adams is leaving, because we can't look into the man's head. The President has done more worrying about this than almost any other matter lately. We don't believe that Adams did anything dishonest at all, but everybody thinks he was silly." Translation: pretty soon someone would look into Sherman Adams' head...
Thursday will be taken up by a trip to Newport, R.I., where the delegates will be taken out to sea on U.S. and Canadian destroyers to watch the America Cup Challenge. A news conference and panel-discussion open to the public are scheduled for Friday, and Saturday's banquet will close the meeting...
...midweek, from President Eisenhower's vacation residence in Newport, R.I., U.S. Secretary of State Dulles read off his -stern warning to Red China (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In Moscow the Soviet press blustered that, if the U.S. and Red China came to blows, Russia would help Peking "with everything at its disposal." Peking itself, in a move clearly designed to lend color to future charges of "aggression" by the U.S., proclaimed that henceforth the limit of its territorial waters would be not three but twelve miles. This would mean, if the Reds could make it stick, that all of Quemoy...
...competition to choose the U.S. boat that this month will defend the America's Cup -world's most prestigious sailing trophy -against the British challenger Sceptre. Last week, as the final trials of the four 12-meter yachts began in open ocean ten miles off Newport, R.I., the two took over. Cornelius ("Corny") Shields was at the wheel of the spanking-new Columbia for the all-important start and the windward legs, and Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher Jr. was principal skipper of the 19-year...