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...Island (which he later increased to nearly ten times his 1952 plurality). Bustling ahead in New York City, which the Democrats carried by some 350,000 votes in 1952, Ike was stitching up a powerful statewide lead. At 11:25, with firm victories in ten states, the G.O.P. avalanche overtook wavering Michigan. At G.O.P. headquarters in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, Ike started planning his TVictory speech of thanks...
...quickly slowed them, and gravity pulled them toward the earth. If the airplane had kept its original course, it would have passed by them, but its steepened dive made it intersect their down-curving path. When it hit them, they must have been moving so slowly that the airplane overtook them at a good fraction of its own air speed, which was about as fast as many a newly fired bullet...
Boucher and Hanlon staged a personal duel for second place after both had moved ahead of Norris and McLean at the 1 1/2 mile mark. They could not gain on Reider, but maintained a wide margin over the trailing Crimson runners. Hanlon finally overtook his teammate to place second, with Boucher third...
Last week, in the fullness of years, fate overtook Fleet Admiral Ernie King. At the Portsmouth, N.H. naval hospital, where he had been spending the summer, Sundowner King, aged 77, died of a heart ailment. After funeral services at Washington's National Cathedral, with Old Comrades General Marshall, Admirals William D. Leahy and Chester Nimitz among the honorary pallbearers, Staunch Mariner King, who never saw the sea until he was 18 but made its mastery his life, was buried at Annapolis...
...realize that we are again open to the fate that overtook the Students for Eisenhower, but we are confident that Harvard men who believe in fair play and free discussion will join our club in sufficient numbers to protect it from the small, but organized, group which swallowed the Students for Eisenhower," Korn said...