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Rain dripped steadily from the north portico of the White House, the Army band sounded ruffles and flourishes as. promptly at noon. President Eisenhower strode on to the porch. Around the necks of seven stiffly uneasy Korean war veterans, the President clasped star-spangled blue ribbons from which hung the nation's highest military award: the Medal of Honor. The language of the citations told of deeds of steel and fire and unyielding spirit...
Dickenson's parents hope to make up for his romantic difficulties. Out on her back porch, Bessie noted that water is now piped to the house from a mountain spring. "If Ed could only see how close the water is to the house," she said. "When Ed was home, the water was up on the hill and we had to carry it down." She moved back into the kitchen and tossed a fat slab of sausage into the frying pan. "We're gonna put on the big pot and the little one too. Keith Marrs is gonna bake...
...playing noisiiy and energetically with the neighbors' kids in Phoenix. Then one day he was hit by a car. Except for a bump on the head, he seemed unhurt and soon he was out playing again. But within a few days, he fell on a playmate's porch and lay there in a convulsive seizure. At the hospital, his parents learned that Billy's brain had been injured when...
After midnight, two FBI agents slipped into the backyard of a trim white bungalow on the outskirts of St. Joseph, Mo., tried the locked doors of the darkened house, inspected'the yard until their flashlights' beams came to a cluster of wilting yellow chrysanthemums by the back porch. Shoveling the flowers aside, the agents started digging. As the sun came up, they stopped and waited until a workman, Claude James, came along the street. They gave him a job: digging for the body of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease, murdered by kidnapers who had planted the chrysanthemums over...
...Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo (who presented him with a Formosan edition of his book, Crusade in Europe). He also got a 7 ft., 200-lb. pop-eyed halibut from Representative Thor Tollefson of Washington State. "Gee whiz," said the President when he met the monster fish on a porch bordering the Rose Garden, "I've never seen such a big fish...