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...Saginaw, Mich., he told his audience that the Republican Party is the party of the rich and privileged, advocating a "restricted heaven-a heaven for members only." He conceded that taxes "are high, uncomfortably, dangerously high," but blamed them on defense spending, and declared that the country was more prosperous than ever. At the same time he vigorously attacked Eisenhower's assertion that much of this prosperity rested on defense spending...
Contributing mightily to the general excitement and confusion was the erratic behaviour of the Eisenhower train. At Saginaw, Ike had barely opened his mouth to say "Ladies & gentlemen . . ." when the engineer sent the Eisenhower train rolling inexorably away from the assembled crowd. At Lapeer, the next stop, the train again pulled out before Ike could speak, then halted some distance off, where Ike and Mamie began to sign autographs. As the train started up for the second time, Ike caught Mamie in the act of handing a pen down to an autograph-seeker and cried out in anguish...
...over Michigan, dailies have been publishing pictures of unusually tall sunflowers. Last week the Saginaw News ran a "sunflower to end all sunflowers": 75 feet high, being watered by a hook & ladder fire truck (see cut). "Firemen," said the News caption, "were called out when observers thought frankly they were seeing a stalled flying saucer." But the dozing Detroit A.P. bureau didn't read the fine print, missed the gag and sent out the picture over its wirephoto circuits as an authentic shot. Later, red-faced A.P. flashed its clients: "A kill is mandatory. Make certain the picture...
While the truce negotiators struggled across the conference table, the U.S. could only wait and hope. Last week in Saginaw, Mich., Mr. & Mrs. Walter Fox listened as the radio gave the names from the Communist list. "Don't worry, Mom," said one of the younger children. "Ronald's name is going to be on that list." A few minutes later, a Western Union messenger knocked on the door. The telegram he handed Mrs. Fox was from the Defense Department: her son, reported missing last July, had been killed in action...
...people who lived too far away or were too sick to come to church regularly. When radio came along in the '205, he determined to expand his job at the Methodist church into a mission of the air. He tried to interest nearby cities such as Flint and Saginaw in setting up a broadcasting station strictly for religious programs, but he got no backing. Frank Hemingway set to work in Lapeer to launch...