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...would have been a hard pill for the President for anyone to follow Foster, because there was a very close relationship there." Moreover, Herter's first year began somewhat awkwardly. Informed by Ike that he had been chosen to succeed Dulles, Herter quickly had the head-to-toe physical examination requested by the President, was embarrassed when the appointment was delayed while the results (satisfactory) were flown to vacationing Eisenhower in Augusta...
...punishment, say union men, is tough but necessary. "It may seem like bullying," argues a Trades Union Congress official, "but it is also a fact that society has some sort of right to impose pressure on a bloke who won't toe the line. You get a form of anarchy if people strike off on their...
Dressed in black from head to toe, sipping dry sherry and thinly warmed by two small electric heaters, Author Compton-Burnett speaks with dry severity of her books, classing them as "between novels and plays." None have been staged, though six have been adapted for radio. She writes in dialogue because "it just came naturally-I think in conversation." But she will not tolerate "frivolous" topics, as, for instance, the date of her birth ("Such matters are gossip...
Loyal Rockefeller partisans refused to see the withdrawal as a retreat. They dreamed headily that somewhere along the line Dick Nixon might stub his toe, that the Administration's gambles on foreign policy might fall apart and that delegates would call for a Rockefeller draft at the Chicago convention. Beyond that they had another dream: that somehow Nixon might get defeated in 1960. Presumably that would finish Nixon and open up to Rockefeller the vista...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rhoderick Robert McGrigor, 66, tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) fighting admiral who captained the battle cruiser Renown that stalked and sank Germany's Bismarck in World War II, commanded the first Allied landings in the toe of Italy and was blown from his ship during the assault, was appointed First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff (1951-55); in Aberdeen, Scotland...