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...practice tee with Pro Ed Dudley. The President had played only once since he left Denver Oct. 15, and his game had deteriorated. When his foursome teed off, Ike's drives were often wild, his putting sour. He was disgusted and threatened, like any Sunday duffer, to abandon the game forever. Montgomery used to be a golfer, but he injured a vertebra in a plane accident after the war, and has given up the sport. He followed the foursome in an electric scooter...
...Abandon his demand for 15 more active ROK divisions (and with them, his dream of "driving north" to unify Korea on his own), and settle for the U.S. plan he had accepted in Washington-ten reserve divisions, 75 jet planes...
...Abandon his stalling on ratification of the U.S.-Korean mutual defense pact, which he has held up for ten months because it provides that either party can terminate it on one year's notice...
...earliest and most influential voices raised against the South's triple problem of poverty, race and regionalism; in Chapel Hill, N.C. During his 34 years at the University of North Carolina, Georgia-born Sociologist Odum exhorted his fellow Southerners (in 200-odd books, articles and monographs) to abandon provincialism, utilize to the fullest their great resources of power, climate, soil and men. He preached his message in scholarly tomes (Southern Regions of the United States) and popular novels (Rainbow Round My Shoulder), lived to see a new generation of Southerners on the way to realizing his fondest dream...
...Association. In Pawtucket, R.I., the Kennedy-Collins American Legion Post voted to abandon the word "comrade," its traditional form of address, "because it tends to give an unfriendly and un-American feeling to the organization...