Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard as they might find it to believe in a campaign year, said Ike, he had not come to Iowa to make a political speech but to visit again the Great Plains of his boyhood, "this great central granary of the United States." Rambling on with appropriate corniness, the President harked back to the "peace" theme of the television speech he had made earlier in the week (see below). The plow, he told his overalled, khakied and cottoned audience, is man's "symbol of peace"; in "that wonderful future time when there shall be no war," swords shall...
...Personal Touch. While the Newton visit gave Ike his best chance to rub shoulders with farm voters, thousands of other lowans got a closehand look at the President during the 24 hours he spent in the state. From Des Moines, where they had flown from Washington Thursday afternoon, Ike and Mamie drove to Boone-Mamie's birthplace-in a bubble-top Lincoln. Ike stood throughout much of the 65 miles, waving to the crowds gathered in the little towns and at the crossroads, flashing his familiar grin, shouting greetings. At Boone, the Eisenhowers spent a quiet evening with Mamie...
...Behind It & Shove." At the airport, Ike paused long enough to chat, again informally, with a group of Iowa Republican leaders and workers, all obviously buoyed by the results of his visit. He could not stand being "nonpolitical" any longer, he told them, adding high praise and re-election plugs for Governor Leo A. Hoegh and Senator Bourke Hickenlooper...
...Avenue apartment where he lives with his strikingly handsome wife Marion and their three children (Joy Deborah, 8, Joshua Moses, 6, and Carla, 1). Exposing his conservatively tailored $200 suit to a driving rain, he walked across a twelve-mile radius on Manhattan's Upper West Side to visit six synagogues. It was 8 p.m. before a bedraggled Jack Javits returned from the last intoned "Shalom Aleichem." Said he: "I feel more dead than alive...
Miss Giovanna Ferrara, 23, an Italian chemistry student who used a knowledge of American history to win a total of $24,000 on Italian and American quiz programs, will visit the University at 2:30 p.m. today as part of a government-sponsored tour of Greater Boston...