Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There's My Old Flag!" At the West Point Museum, the President pored over Custer's last battle map of the Little Big Horn country, and the courier's note that brought his last despairing cry for rein forcements. "Oh, look at this," cried the President, espying "Little Phil" Sheridan's gold-plated Winchester. Then, through an open doorway, the President spotted the flaming-sword emblem of his Supreme Headquarters in Europe, and he blurted: "Oh, by gosh, there's my old flag. I'd forgotten I sent that up here." Afterward, the President...
...time last year, a husky Secret Service man wiggled under a stage at an East Coast college, where the President of the United States was to receive an honorary degree. In the shadows he spotted a tin can, lifted it gingerly out and raised the top. Inside was a note: "This could have been a bomb." But the Secret Service did not need a college prank to remind them of the danger. This June, when Ike is on the road 15 days out of 30, the Secret Service will be on the move 30 days...
...sandwich at his desk, a 12-ft.-long kidney-shaped masterpiece that he designed himself. While reading or talking, Reuther scribbles incessantly in notebooks, jotting down his jet-stream of ideas (even in bed, at night, when he thinks of something, he gets up to make a note of it). The U.A.W.'s top officials have all picked up the habit; when called, they pick up their notebooks and gather around Reuther's kidney-shaped command post. If they argue too long, he snaps: "I think I know the feeling of the workers." Once a six-page draft...
...phone rang in West Germany's embassy in Paris. When the caller identified himself as from the Soviet embassy with an urgent note to deliver to the German ambassador, the ambassador's secretary thought it was a joke and almost hung up on the spot...
...Soviet Russia declared that "it would be honored to receive in Moscow in the near future the Chancellor of the German Federal Republic Herr Adenauer . . . to discuss the establishing of diplomatic, trade and cultural relations between the [two countries] and the examination of questions connected with it." Reading the note in his office overlooking the Rhine, the granite face of old Konrad Adenauer split into a grin...