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...sentiment that caught up the President last week was attributable to the fact that he was among old friends and old memories. One other contributing fact: when he awoke in the sixth-floor suite of the Sunflower Hotel one morning, Dwight Eisenhower had turned 69 (b! Oct. 14, 1890). With Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan, he became the third U.S. President to reach that age in office...
...Cover) In the vast, air-conditioned, limestone building covering five acres of Washington, D.C. which Harold Ickes built for his Interior Department in 1936, there is a sixth-floor suite lovingly planned by Ickes for Ickes. Two private elevators lead to the Ickes suite; two Alaskan totem poles flank the entry hall, 55 feet long. Beyond come stenographic offices and then the Secretary's private office: walnut-floored, oak-paneled and immense (960 sq. ft., as much as a five-room house). Near by are the private aide's office, private dining room, private conference room (which Ickes...
...working days with an 8 a.m. conference with officials of Columbia University (his resignation is effective Jan. 19). Then he drove down from Morningside Heights to his headquarters in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel. There the harried management had moved the wooden barrier far out into the sixth-floor lobby in an attempt to clear a passage through which Ike and his visitors could reach an elevator without being smothered by the crush of reporters and photographers...
Behind Barricades. In Manhattan next day he opened shop in a sixth-floor suite of the Commodore Hotel, blocked off by a special partition and a heavy Secret Service guard. Reporters choked the corridor outside, engulfing visitors like Bob Taft and House Leader Joe Martin (who came up to talk legislative programs) and the Cabinet nominees. When Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden stepped out of the elevator to keep a lunch date with Ike, he was greeted by a glare of flash bulbs and a roar from a photographer (to a slow-footed reporter): "Get the hell...
...intern marked the girl's chart "Possible 100% HY" (hysteria), noted "no abnormal reflexes, no response to painful stimuli," summoned an attendant to carry her to a sixth-floor ward...