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...lanche, President Eisenhower kept no chart as Franklin Roosevelt had done on election nights. He depended entirely on the television set and press reports brought in by Secretary Hagerty and son John. At 10 o'clock, as previously planned, he dressed and rode off to the Sheraton-Park Hotel, where the Republican National Committee had set up its victory headquarters. There, surrounded by members of his Cabinet and other close associates, preparing to make his victory appearance before 2,300 cheering Republicans...
Into the crowd of well-wishers and party workers gathered in Wing B of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel strode the other half of the Eisenhower-Nixon team. His shoulders thrown back, his face glowing, the Vice President cried: "We're in! We're in!" Hours before, when Rich ard Milhous Nixon had been asked how he felt about the first intimations of a G.O.P. landslide, his reply had been guarded: "At a time like this, you just don't feel good-you feel numb." Now. with Pat Nixon at his side, as she had been...
...been a quiet evening. Gathered in the presidential suite of Chicago's Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, the Stevenson party of 20-family members and close friends-ate a leisurely buffet dinner, then settled back to watch the returns on television. Even when Cam paign Manager James A. Finnegan came in at 10:40 p.m. to confirm what had already become obvious, there was no change in the calm, genteel atmosphere. Shortly after midnight, Adlai Stevenson picked up a carefully drafted statement, and for the second time in four years made his way to the microphones to concede to Dwight Eisenhower...
...Clock. At Chicago's Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, Adlai Stevenson ducked out of a dinner party to huddle with Campaign Manager Jim Finnegan and Speechwriter Willard Wirtz. As rumors mounted that Adlai was preparing to concede, the Eisenhower landslide rumbled on. Ike put the lie to the "as-Maine-goes" Democratic victories of last September (TIME, Sept. 24) by sweeping up Maine's five electoral votes by an even wider margin than his 1952 victory. He surged ahead in Chicago's heavily Democratic Cook County, picked up a three-to-two lead in pivotal Pennsylvania. The Boston Herald...
...week began with a visit to an uncommitted element of U.S. labor, banqueting in the same Sheraton-Park Hotel ballroom where he had appeared at a press photographers' dinner on June 9, less than two hours before he woke up with a world-shaking "bellyache" (TIME, June 18). His hosts last week: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, celebrating with formal dress and caviar its 75th anniversary. Sharp in a tartan cummerbund presented him by the Black Watch, famed British Highland regiment, the guest of honor disposed of steak, enjoyed the Hollywood-flavored floor show, then delivered...