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...Dwight Eisenhower said to a group of women campaign workers: "I'll tell you this, if the women don't get on the campaign train, I'm going to get off." The women responded by turning out in droves to work for Eisenhower, not only as orchid-bearers and stenographers, but as policymakers, strategists, speakers and doorbell ringers. Political reporters and politicians agree that the women's vote was an important factor in Ike's victory. By last week it was a good bet that Ike was giving careful consideration to the possibility of appointing...
Also, a triple orchid corsage from Sage's florists; nylon stockings from the Touraine shop; a box of Fanny Farmer chocolates; and a genuine Harvard lace garter from Bermorr...
...from a field of six 'Cliffe cuties. The winner, and each finalist, was showered with gifts from Square merchants. Miss Radcliffe received a sweater from Corcoran's records from Briggs and Briggs, jewelry from Diana-Christine's, books from the Harvard Book Store, a scarf from J. August, an orchid from Jack William's flower shop, five cartons of Phillip Morris cigarettes, a meal ticket from the University Luncheonette, and a belt from Town and Travel women's shop...
...brightly colored drinking fountain that looked vaguely like some giant metallic orchid-8 ft. high, with flowing petals and a stippled yellow, blue and white enamel finish. There was a high spout for adults, and a lower one for children. Decorating the fountain were abstract figures with long, storklike arms and legs. Junyer worked out his idea last year on a trip to Sweden, when it suddenly struck him how "stylized and ugly" drinking fountains had become. With the help of Swedish Architect Hans Asplund, he assembled four old bathtubs, then worked six weeks to cut, weld and enamel them...
...Voted to reconsider the admission of 14 new U.N. members (five of them Soviet satellite countries) on a package deal proposed by Russia. This was a small orchid for the departed Vishinsky and a minor defeat for the U.S., which is anxious to include the other nine (Italy, Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Austria, Ceylon, Nepal, Jordan and Libya), but resents Russia's exclusion of South Korea and its inclusion of satellite Outer Mongolia, which is no more a sovereign nation than South Dakota. Addition of the other satellite countries (Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and Albania) would also relatively strengthen the voting...