Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after dinner, he put in a transatlantic call to Sir Winston Churchill. It was towards midnight in London, but the old Prime Minister was still up, and delighted at the proposal. He suggested Bermuda as a conference site, agreed that late June (after the coronation, and after an Eisenhower trip to the Midwest) would be fine. Eisenhower phoned Mayer, who was pleased too, although he dropped out of the picture the next day when his government was overthrown...
...Took a trip to the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, which Franklin Roosevelt named Shangri-La and which Eisenhower renamed Camp David in honor of his five-year-old grandson and namesake...
...functions. Possessed of an immense amount of secret information, he is elaborately circumspect about his party talk. If he is asked an embarrassing question, he launches into what his family calls "the goony-bird routine"-a lengthy discussion of the goony birds he saw on Midway Island during his trip to Korea with...
Boxcars to Breakfast. At 4 a.m. the floor was cleared for more dancing-much more enthusiastic dancing than at the gym-and at 5 o'clock the party moved to the depot for a train "trip to the Orient" (Orient being a hamlet twelve miles away). The orchestra hit it up in a boxcar between two coaches, and the boys & girls who were too weary to dance either necked or threw confetti out the windows on the sleeping countryside. Two hours later, as the train clattered back into Creston, past the water tower, the band broke into Auld Lang...
...Among the first: Paramount Chief Mwanawina II of Barotseland, representing all tribal chiefs of Northern Rhodesia. Outfitted with a replica of the claw-hammered coat and gold-striped trousers worn by his father for the coronation of Edward VII, the chief made the first 300 miles of the trip to London by barge, the rest by Constellation. Also arriving: Queen Salote Tupou of the Pacific Island protectorate of Tonga, one of the three reigning queens in the world (the others: Britain's Elizabeth, the Netherlands' Juliana), and definitely the largest (6 ft. 3 in., 280 lbs.). Having left...