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...time without the President.* Fortunately, at the moment, there is no major crisis facing the Government. To keep up liaison between Denver and Washington, as the President recovers, the NSC and the Cabinet decided to send the President's White House "chief of staff," former New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams, to Denver. He arrived near week's end, and the staff arrangements for operation during the President's convalescence were complete...
...week's end Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams flew into Denver to take charge of the Lowry headquarters, and President Eisenhower resumed his authority as Chief Executive. Adams brought with him two lists of State Department recess appointments that needed the President's signature. With his doctors' approval, Ike held the papers in the air and signed them. "Mr. President," said White House Physician Major General Howard Snyder, "you only have to initial these papers." Ike looked up and smiled. "Well, Howard," he said, "I think I know more about it than you do," and signed his name...
...University then issued a statement opposing the plan for two reasons: "The University must reserve to itself the right to decide whether and when to telecast Harvard football games," and "Legal council has questioned the legality of the NCAA program," under the Sherman anti-trust...
...General Sherman sequoia, reputed to be "the oldest living thing on earth" (some 3,500 years) and largest of all trees, is 272 ft. tall and 101 ft. in circumference, weighs 2,150 tons (155 tons for the foliage alone) and contains 600,000 board feet of lumber-enough to build a whole town...
...Winding up its two-week conference in Paris, the World's Alliance of the Y.M.C.A.s (TIME, Aug. 22) elected as president of its World Council Charles Dunbar Sherman, 36, of Liberia. First Negro to be elected to the post, President Sherman was educated in the U.S. (Howard University, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance arud Commerce), is a career diplomat for Liberia, where he is currently economic adviser to the government...