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...more difficult session. Indian officialdom is notably unenchanted by Dulles. Unlike the welcome extended to Bulganin and Khrushchev, Dulles' airport welcome was quiet and formal. Dulles was driven to Nehru's home, where he found the Indian Prime Minister sitting reading a book on the porch. They began a friendly but frank conversation which, with a few breaks, lasted hours longer than had been scheduled. Nehru was not happy over SEATO's references to Kashmir; Dulles replied that the U.S. was not happy about joint Indian-Soviet statements critical of Western policy...
...discuss big do-it-yourself projects. After another round of coffee and more planning in the Hall kitchen, they would go to work. In their time Hall and Davis have: stripped down and reassembled Davis' Ford; lowered the ceiling and completely modernized the Hall kitchen; enlarged Davis' porch; built bookcases and a large storage closet in Davis' house. Nothing, from plumbing to electrical work, is too complicated or too large for the pair to tackle. "If he called me from Indiana or India," says Davis...
...type of "front porch" campaign which President Eisenhower said he would wage, there is plenty of precedent. Calvin Coolidge in 1924 did no strenuous campaigning but easily won election. The President has little need for introducing himself to the voters. Nothing he could say in the campaign could add greatly to what he has already said...
Courage, Inc. was started by Dr. Camille Kereszturi Cayley, a Hungarian-born pediatrician who led an active life until, in 1952, she fell twelve feet from a porch while sawing a tree branch. In a few seconds she became paralyzed from the neck down. While learning to live with her disability at Manhattan's famed Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, she made some professional observations about other handicapped patients. Her conclusion: without help and encouragement, many would go home and just give up. She got together several patients, founded Courage, Inc. on the same principle as Alcoholics Anonymous...
...Union Station-to raise their voices with his in a monster Christmas Sing with Bing. The network further urged all listeners to ". . . join in. We hope to get millions of people to open their windows and let their radios blare forth, bring their portable radios out to the front porch or street corner, have car radios turned on loudly with the windows open and get loudspeakers set up in the city square." The New York World-Telegram and Sun found this "one of the more frightening Yuletide prospects" and added sourly: "If Bing wants any requests, we have...