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...think that the principal result of the European sojourn has been to fortify Mr. Eisenhower's political position immeasurably. People are disposed to credit him with sincere and decent instincts, and if he accomplished nothing that is visible, at least he managed to extricate himself from a conference with the Russians without getting trimmed. In view of the performance of his predecessors, this is a feat that is not to be despised...
...hemispheric solidarity). He invited 26 congressional leaders from both parties to another White House conference on Geneva this week. He approved the official list of nine U.S. delegates* accompanying him on the trip-the first peacetime journey to Europe by any American President since Woodrow Wilson's fateful sojourn for the 1919 Paris conference...
...Manhattan. He left school at the end of the eighth grade, lived by a variety of odd jobs while teaching himself to paint. Success came very slowly, and Thon's star did not really rise until after his World War II stint on a subchaser and his sojourn in Italy...
...abandoning Daylight Saving Time for the winter, these gentlemen would have us continue with what purports to be Eastern Daylight Saving Time. This is a misnomer, since such time has been abandoned everywhere else. The truth is that we are being led on a temporary sojourn into the Atlantic Standard Time Zone...
Speaking to the American Bar Association in Chicago, Joseph N. Welch, former special counsel for the Army in its squabble with Senator Joseph McCarthy, reflected on his depressing sojourn in Washington. "The two simple emotions I observed at the capital were fear and hate, fanned to a white heat," said he. "It was frightening to me . . .A steady diet of this . . . will destroy us." Meanwhile, Tennessee's Ray Jenkins, special committee counsel at the long-winded hearings, discovered that he had popped up as Y. Y. Cragnose, a bumpy-beaked character in Cartoonist Al Capp...