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...evening's coaxial keynoter. The President flew into Chicago in a snowstorm, sat down to a $100-a-plate dinner (cold roast beef and string beans) with 5,400 Republicans at the huge International Amphitheater. In a twelve-minute address at meal's end, he promised "prompt and effective modernization of our defense organization," urged improved educational and mutual assistance programs, asked an end to partisan bickering over U.S. security. Said he: "Americans must never and will never let the issue of security and peace become a pawn of anyone's political chess game...
...Pentagon was quick to catch the note in the President's press conference last week which indicated that Ike was less enthusiastic about the need for prompt reorganization of the Defense establishment than he had sounded in his State of the Union message (TIME, Jan. 20). "My own convictions are rather fixed," Ike told the newsmen mildly. (General Eisenhower came back from World War II convinced that U.S. defense needed "central planning-the essence of unity in the armed forces.") But when a reporter asked last week whether he was still in that fight, Ike seemed to back away...
...Weapons & Technology Prompt a New Look
...marlinespike even deeper by dunning him for $3,777. Explanation: Under "unknown circumstances," i.e., snarled by red tape, the Navy had continued to send the commander his retirement pay after it was officially cut off. The Journal again front-paged the story, raised a ruckus that may well prompt congressional action to give servicemen ironclad retirement benefits...
...virus has already caused "the most widespread influenza epidemic in 40 years," said Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service. His estimate: 15 million to 20 million cases in the U.S. since Sept.1. Though the peak of the first wave has passed, Dr. Burney urged prompt use of the vaccine now available to guard against a second wave early in 1958. ¶ Grants of $500,000 each to three universities (Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Pittsburgh) were announced by the Rockefeller Foundation for training and research programs to prepare public health experts to guard civilians against...