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...only a short stroll across what used to be the family vegetable garden to the new museum. Ike spent an hour looking at the mementos of his own life (everything from a TIME cover portrait to war souvenirs). Pausing before a jeweled dagger given him by Russian Marshal Zhukov, he remarked that it had been a "very great personal honor; when a marshal takes off his ceremonial dagger and gives it to you, that's something." Next day the Eisenhower family went to the Abilene cemetery to look at the graves of the President's parents. David Jacob...
...66th birthday, Jean Monnet took his morning stroll through the woods near his home in Luxembourg. His mind was made up. Next day, the cheery-cheeked little Frenchman who is president of the six-nation European Coal-Steel Community stood before its governors and announced his resignation. "In order to participate more freely in the realization of European unity, I shall take back my liberty," Monnet said. He was still the practicing optimist, yet not all his brave words could hide the fact that the man who was known in 1952-53 as "Mr-Europe" no longer felt at home...
...State Department officials called the Russian story as fantastic as the wildest of space-cadet comic strips. What really happened, they said, was that Mrs. Sommerlatte and a friend, the wife of Assistant Naval Attaché Houston Stiff, were out on a quiet, picture-taking stroll when they were pulled into a building by two Soviet secret agents and detained for more than an hour. The Soviet version of the incident, said U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen, "is in such flagrant contradiction of the facts that I am sure the Soviet Foreign Ministry will wish to change it." Even after...
Until sufficient funds are available, Fogg should, nonetheless, give all students a chance for a leisurely stroll by staying open one or two Sundays or evenings each month; exhibits remain for at least this period. The price of such an extension would be small balanced against the advantage of longer hours for the University's nocturnal population...
...Premiers took a break to stroll around the pond in the autumn dusk. Then Mendès broached the question on which the week's success (and German sovereignty) depended. The French Assembly would not tolerate any economic isolation of the Saar from France, Mendès said bluntly, or agree to its political union with Germany. It must remain "European-ized," even if there was no longer any European community to which to attach it. Adenauer was reluctant to renounce all claim to the Saar as German territory. Mendès conceded that any agreement reached would...