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Compared to the dissensions of 1854, "our differences today are hot and superficial, like sunburn, not like a fever. The burning issue of 1854 was slavery. Its counterpart of 1954 is the Communist conspiracy. If we had been as united on the first as we are on the second, I dare say there would have been no Civil War. Never in the whole history of the United States, I think, have its people been so overwhelmingly and firmly united on anything as they are in their opposition to Communism." Far from being at war with each other, "we are profoundly...
...tootled and ruffled and flourished for him. In a frosty Pennsylvania stadium, he ate an alfresco box supper with 9,000 (see below). South of the border for one day, he offered a champagne toast to the President of Mexico. In New Orleans he took on a flaming sunburn, in Kansas City a stockman's Homburg. In Abilene he picked cornflowers from his mother's garden and gave an old girl friend a resounding and public kiss. Through it all. Ike seemed to be having the time of his life, and the cheering crowds seemed...
...first two days of his Southern vacation, President Eisenhower spent every spare hour on the golf course. His face turned pink with sunburn, his appetite sharpened, and after 18 holes with last year's National Amateur Champion Jack Westland (now a Republican Congressman from Everett, Wash.), word leaked through the golf-score security curtain that Ike stood a good chance of breaking 90 before the week...
...thought well enough of prospects for 1953 to distribute an early bonus, there didn't seem to be much reason not to hang up the automobile chains, get out the seed catalogue, and anticipate that illusion of well-being which modern man derives from an early coat of sunburn...
...sponsorship of Atlantic Union: "It will be a blow to the cause of liberty around the world to submerge the sovereignty of the U.S. with other nations." On his first day, Russell spoke to 7,500 in Gainesville, Ocala, Leesburg and Orlando, finished with a bright pink case of sunburn on his bald head. He planned 30 speeches in ten days...