Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ahead." With the campaign over, President-elect Eisenhower wasted no time in saying to Adams: "I have been thinking this over. You had better come down with me to the White House. You can be there at my right hand." In his rented home in Washington's Rock Creek Park, Adams nowadays arises even earlier than he did before the President's illness. His first morning home from Denver in November, he was up at 5:45. "I would think we were back logging again," said drowsy Rachel Adams. Her husband, already wide-awake, routed her from...
...warm sun pours its light into the windows of homes in Phoenix . . . [New York] skyscrapers give the impression of houses chiseled from rock that was standing there before. The outside appearance of apartment houses is somewhat monotonous, but one should pay tribute to their internal planning and design...
...grandfather: a print of an oil painting that the President started the week before his late heart attack and finished painting in the hospital at Denver. The print showed a snowscape of St. Louis Creek, in the Rockies, where the President often liked to fish. "He knows every rock in the stream," said one of the recipients...
...England's Nottingham galley was smashed to bits on rocky Boon Island, just six miles off the coast of Maine. What the crew of 14 sees the next morning is enough to test the fiber of any man: a ledge on which nothing grows, a slab of rock pounded by huge seas. The ship has vanished in the night, the men have nothing but the clothes they wear. There is no food, no firewood, no water. Novelist Roberts has a perfect chance to sort out the men from the weaklings. Some of them lie down and wait for death...
...Downing Bland Jenks, 40, moved up from executive vice president to president of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (14th largest), succeeding John Dow Farrington, who continues as chief executive officer in the new position of board chairman. Yaleman ('37) Jenks helped operate military railroads in Africa, Italy and Germany in World War II, was general manager of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois before Farrington brought him to the Rock Island...