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...year 1951, it was Ike Eisenhower's destiny that the U.S. should look at him over the shoulder of a question mark. When his five-starred Constellation took off from Paris last week, the full-time business of running Europe's defenses may have been uppermost in his mind, but he landed, nonetheless, right in the middle of the biggest question of domestic politics: Is Ike a candidate for President in 1952? Reporters asked it as he landed at New York's Mitchel Field, asked it again when he greeted his grandchildren at Fort Knox...
...Peace Treaty in San Francisco last week, an old soldier rose 2,650 miles away to make a speech. Douglas MacArthur, chief architect of peace in Japan, had not been invited to the signing, instead was appearing before 10,000 cheering Ohioans in Cleveland. But the treaty was not uppermost in Douglas MacArthur's mind that night. Though he took due note of Japan's recovery and return to sovereignty, and though he insisted that he had "neither partisan affiliation nor . . . political purpose," the burden of his message was a slambang, frankly political assault on the Democratic Administration...
...reporters in Vienna last week Vogeler said: "I can't believe I'm here. I'm afraid to wake up." Then he spoke, hesitantly, of the thing that seemed to be uppermost in his mind-the confession of espionage he had made in court (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950). "I am very sorry that. . . I feel badly that . . . that I didn't perhaps live up to American tradition under the pressure . . ." His wife prompted: ". . . that you were under...
...days later, after the Government had recommended a 25-year term, Spy Gold rose to speak of the things "uppermost in my mind." He had, he said, received the most "scrupulously fair treatment" by the FBI and by the courts- treatment he would never have got "in the Soviet Union or any of the countries dominated by it." He was concerned over those who had been "besmirched by my deed-my family, my friends, my country . . ." He said: "There is a puny inadequacy to any words telling how deep and horrible is my remorse...
With a Chamber of Commerce faith in their city's importance as a target, most city planners were sure that their local army air base or railroad yard was uppermost in Joe Stalin's mind. Detroit was certain that its auto plants would take a hit. Los Angeles had its aircraft plants. And Boston counted itself vulnerable because of the Navy yard and the massed brain power around Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...