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...precisely that sort of leadership that the discoverers of the New Eisenhower were just beginning to catch up with. He was not, in fact, the New Ike or even the New Old Ike, just the same-Ike. It was that same Ike who last week replied to a press conference question asking whether he had a "new concept of the presidency" or whether he was "just feeling better?" Replied the President: "Perfectly simple. When you have a situation that has gone on, as we have had this cold war, since 1945 . . . there must be no gun unfired and no individual...
From the first, Tallent saw dismal Cabazon as a promised land. He bought a dilapidated parcel of land, divided it into lots, became publisher of the local weekly and president of the Chamber of Commerce. Then he waited. In 1954 came the sort of man that Tallent had been waiting for: Jerry Kosseff, a glib, messianic promoter from Hollywood. On the speaker's stand Kosseff was a Bible-quoting spellbinder. Recalls one Cabazonian: "Kosseff told us, 'Look around us. This is the Sinai Desert. All we have to do is stretch out our hands and the manna will...
Master & Peasant. Born and raised on a western Pennsylvania farm, Oliver sang in the choir at Geneva College ('43) and became vaguely aware that he had "some sort of a voice." But aside from a short stay at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music after his World War II service (Navy gunnery officer), he did not do much about it. Instead, he set out to make his mark in business. Says Oliver: "I never had much taste for living in a garret. And I guess, too, that I've still got the cautious instincts of a peasant...
...last three governments of the Fourth Republic. Outside Parliament he began, with practical organizing skill, to pull together the network of Gaullist and wealthy Algerian settlers who on May 13, 1958 touched off the military revolt in Algiers. Today he indignantly insists that "there was no plot, or that sort of stupid stuff." But a moment later he pulls out a copy of a book spelling out the details of the Algiers plot and, with a chuckle, points to the author's inscription: "To Jacques Soustelle, the principal architect of the miraculous days in Algiers...
...saddle, and for 40 years a professor at the University of Texas, is also his generation's foremost philosopher of the frontier, and the leading historian (The Great Plains, The Texas Rangers) of the American West. At 71, he has been made the hero of a sort of plainsman's festival of letters-a collection of his occasional essays (An Honest Preface; Houghton Mifflin; $3.75), trimmed with the personal tributes of his Texas friends. Says his old friend and cultural sparring partner, J. Frank Dobie, the famed Western folklorist (The Mustangs, The Voice of the Coyote): "Webb...