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TIME'S Aug. 17 cover story on the Sahara is an enlightening and timely article. With the public support of the U.S., France could quell more quickly the fanatical, marauding minority in Algeria, and could concentrate on opening the riches of Algeria's Sahara for the entire population's, and the world's, benefit...
...request Ike donned his favorite jacket, a straw-colored, nubby silk. He sat unsmiling and as if alone with his thoughts. Previous portraitists, working mostly from photographs, have tended to crystallize the popular image of a beamingly paternal President. Wyeth saw and showed an elderly, strong-minded, dedicated public servant, calm in the vortex of great events...
...television to urge a strong bill. He immensely enjoyed going over the drafts of his speech, and he took special pleasure in trying to outfox the Democratic opposition: he deliberately inserted a statement that, since he was barred from seeking reelection, he could only be speaking in the public interest. Behind that statement was the idea of foreclosing to the opposition the free and equal network time required for answering political speeches. It was in this same spirit of paying attention to political niceties that President Eisenhower, on the eve of his departure last week, called New Hampshire...
...Dwight Eisenhower built up a remarkable record of making his vetoes stick: of his first 143 vetoes. Congress failed to override a single one. Last week, just before he took off for Europe, the President jeopardized his perfect record with Veto No. 144. Turned down: the lardy, $1.2 billion public works bill, more popularly called "the pork-barrel bill." Objected Ike in his veto message: the bill included 67 new projects not listed in his budget. These projects would add only $50 million to outlays in the current budget, but "their ultimate cost wall be more than $800 million. This...
...Leader Lyndon Johnson, another old Navyman, added his cool counsel to Nixon's, and the mood of the convention changed. The Legion's high command hastily redrafted its resolution. In the final, milder version, there was no criticism of Ike, and the Legion merely "counseled" the U.S. public to be alert, accepting "the Russian Premier's visit with that dignity common only to free men while holding fast to the thought and determination there will be no compromise . . ." After approving the resolution by acclamation, the Legion proceeded to elect its new national chairman: Martin Boswell McKneally...