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...wave of rancorous controversy and unfavorable publicity that rocked the Princeton community for several months. Now, just a year later, Bicker, the election period for the eating clubs, has been completed as smoothly as anyone can remember. There has been no "cage" on the back porch of Ivy Club, no unhappy group of "one hundred percenters", no charges of religious discrimination...
Finally, the President was reminded of a remark he had made in 1948 when, as the Army's outgoing chief of staff, he had offered his personal prescription for retirement : "Put a chair on the porch. Sit in it for six months, and then begin to rock slowly." Had his ideas changed since then? Said the President of the U.S., looking like almost anything but a candidate for a rocking chair: "I don't know how long this type of retirement would last, but at least I want to sit in that chair until I really want...
...trouble at New Jersey's Diamond County Home for the Aged begins on the day of the annual August fair. The oldsters awake to find little tin name plates tacked to their wicker porch chairs. Gregg, a 70-year-old rebel without a cause, splenetically pries his tag loose. The philosophic Hook, an old man's old man of 94, observes mildly of Gregg's feat that workmanship is not what it once was. The armchair rebellion merely saddens Conner, the poorhouse prefect. A self-punishing do-gooder, Conner needs the inmates' gratitude to mirror...
...Jerry") Persons and Presidential Speechwriter Malcolm Moos. Their briefcase cargo: an all-but-final draft of the 1959 State of the Union message incorporating changes that the President had ordered two days before. The President greeted them just inside the door, led them to his long, heated sun porch, where he had been working on a portrait of Thomas Jefferson. They spread out the papers on a coffee table, got down to a line-by-line discussion...
Less than 30 minutes after his arrival at Gettysburg, Ike was settled in a comfortable chair on his heated, glass-enclosed porch facing out upon the battlefield. Then he went to work on the papers that lay before him-the draft of the State of the Union message to be delivered next week, and a preliminary draft of the presidential budget message to be delivered shortly thereafter...