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Stone was violently critical of Kennedy's policies toward Castro, stating that during his campaign Kennedy had "talked like a vulgar rich man out of Palm Beach" and accusing Adlal Stevenson, American Ambassador in the U.N., of "making stupid speeches on Communist China and telling lies about Cuba...
...weeks, Dwight Eisenhower had been soaking up the sun in Palm Desert, Calif., playing golf, working on his memoirs, and keeping his own counsel. Then, last week, he flew into Los Angeles for a round of speechmaking that proved he still had the old political magic: he stopped traffic for blocks around, flashed the grin at supporters wearing buttons that proclaimed, "I Miss Ike." packed the Hollywood Palladium for a speech at the annual Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce banquet, and drew nearly 100 to hear him talk at a Republican fund-raising dinner-at $500 a plate...
...cottage," Former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, 65, who preferred aspirin-sized pillboxes long before the Age of Jackie, was coaxed by a local boutique keeper into an unlikely flopper model. Especially designed for the midday desert sun, the cotton-eyelet chapeau is peddled to the carriage trade by the Palm Springs Racquet Club's "Glady's Shop" under the fetching tag of "chambermaid...
...conductor on an early-morning train to New York asked boarding passengers. "What's the latest word?" In Grand Central Station, hundreds watched a waiting-room television screen. In Washington, a man walked down Connecticut Avenue staring into a portable, battery-powered TV set. In Palm Beach, President John Kennedy turned on a set in his bedroom. Back in New Concord, Ohio, Glenn's home town, more than 1,000 people tensely watched the TV monitors set up in the Muskingum College gymnasium. Along a seven-mile stretch of beach near Cape Canaveral, a crowd of some...
...combat the noise, earplugs are partially effective. The most common are wax stopples, which can be heated and moistened in the palm just before the exam, until they are pliable enough to stuff in the ear. The palm is usually quite effective for this at the time. If the proctor's directions are then muffled, the plug can be twisted until it comes...