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Loss of Memory. When Ike was stricken by ileitis in June of 1956, he found himself too preoccupied to ponder the disability problem. Explained Ike simply: "It hurt." About a year later, Eisenhower suffered a minor stroke, which he described as "a spasm of the brain." Said he: "For 24 hours I had an absolute loss of memory for words. If I wanted to see anybody I couldn't possibly remember their names. This passed quickly...
Thoughts in Bed. The time may come when it will be better, both for him and the nation, to sit down and ponder a few problems rather than rush all over talking about them. But until that time does come, Lyndon Johnson is riding a crest, both as the President of the U.S. and as a politician seeking reelection. "Every night when I go to bed," he said recently, "I ask myself: 'What did we do today that we can point to for generations to come, to say that we laid the foundation for a better and more peaceful...
...State Department, elaborate contingency plans were taken from the files for the information of the President and his advisers. In universities and newspapers across the country, journalists and professors began to ponder what the death meant. If it was assassination, who would be blamed? The Americans, the Chinese, or a deranged citizen? Who had actually killed him? Even if it had been a heart attack--and after the Premier's recent activity in Eastern Europe this seemed possible--the big question still remained. What would happen...
...inaugural address pledged the university to keep aware of the outside world, while preserving a haven for the detached pursuit of knowledge. Yale may hook up to educational TV, Brewster said. It might even train volunteers for the Peace Corps or give harried students a year off to ponder their future. More important, though, Yale will remain geared to its smallish, liberal arts college-unlike Harvard with its proliferation of special research units, or the "multiversity" of Clark Kerr's California. "Even the pressure to serve the state," Brewster said, "must not lead the university to forfeit that credibility...
...Whirlaway (1941), Pensive (1944), Citation (1948), Ponder (1949), Hill Gail (1952), Iron Liege...