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Last week the President took the speech he wanted to make to the kind of youthful audience he sought: Baylor University's commencement for 665 graduates, where Ike was to receive a doctorate of laws.* Before a crowd of 11,500 jam-packed into Waco's Heart o' Texas Coliseum, he spoke for half an hour, produced few headlines for 1956 but laid down the broad principles "for a better world...
...Accepted an invitation to receive an honorary degree May 25 from Baylor University at Waco, Texas, where he will discuss foreign affairs...
...Research Fundation's poster boy since the organization's founding in 1950; after wasting away from the disease for 15 years; in Port Arthur, Texas. Adopted by widowed Mrs. Louise Waller from an orphan home in Austin after he was discovered as an abandoned infant in a Waco movie theater, Raymond fell an early victim to the crippling disease that afflicts some 200,000 people in the U.S. and for which neither cause nor cure is known...
Shoemake, 59, was discovered by a neighbor who rang a doorbell of the palatial Shoemake home in Waco to find out why the insurance man had not kept a dinner date. Shoemake staggered to the door, his body streaming with blood, a bullet hole through his head. The green carpet of his bedroom was soaked with blood, which trailed into the kitchen, where the gas jets of a stove had been opened. An ambulance rushed him to the hospital, still alive but incoherent...
...victims thought Smith and the commission had been dozing for months while the company's troubles piled up. It was founded by Albert Benton Shoemake, 59, a Waco insurance promoter, who had gone broke with another insurance company in 1938. In 1945 he founded U.S. Trust & Guaranty under an old Texas law that permitted him to charter an insurance company to handle some banking too, thereby duck regular bank-examiners' inspections. His insurance charter should have been issued only after he filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. But U.S. Trust & Guaranty never took...