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...Cold War battle to head off the kind of world the Communists want, the U.S. has never been too specific about the kind of world the U.S. wants. Last week, speaking in his old home town of Abilene, Kans. (see below), President Eisenhower sought to sketch in bold lines the free world's hopes for the future: a sound "world economy" binding together a "world community of free nations, characterized by peace and by justice." Within mankind's reach, said he, is "a free, rich, peaceful future, in which all peoples' can achieve ever-rising levels...
...scene, on a chilly day last week, was an old sepia-toned photo come to life. In the background was "Old Abilene Town"-opera house, livery stable, chapel, railroad depot-all restored to preserve the flavor of the cattle-trail days of early Kansas. In the foreground on the lawn of the Eisenhower Museum were dignitaries, schoolchildren, townsfolk-10,000 people in all. Across the way, where soon would come the slam and crunch of bulldozers, was the site of the Eisenhower Presidential library; near by. the white clapboard house where Ike Eisenhower was reared...
...sentiment that caught up the President last week was attributable to the fact that he was among old friends and old memories. One other contributing fact: when he awoke in the sixth-floor suite of the Sunflower Hotel one morning, Dwight Eisenhower had turned 69 (b! Oct. 14, 1890). With Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan, he became the third U.S. President to reach that age in office...
Change. As he threaded cheerfully among the guests at a birthday reception, urging his friends to take bites from a piece of cake, the remarkable fact was that he looked less than ever like a political patriarch or a wise (or wizened) old man. The years had marked him in many ways: the yellow is gone from his hair (indeed, most of the hair is gone); his face and neck are heavily lined. But the spring in his step, the athletic bearing and carriage, all were firm and strong, and the quick laugh and quicker grin marked a personality that...
Mental Wrestling. As Governor Rockefeller explained it to newsmen last week in Albany, he had devoted himself "with tremendous intensity" to establishing his nine-month-old administration, and it was "running very smoothly." He was at last able to accept a few of the 3,300 speaking bids he had received. "I am not going on this trip as a candidate," said he. He would talk about "national and international" issues. "I have had for a great many years close ties and very basic concern in these problems." Mainly, he wants to "exchange ideas with others, get their reactions...