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Numbers & Morals. The Eisenhower party raced on to Dallas, led most of the way by state highway patrolmen, who occasionally got speedometers up to 90. That evening Ike got a standing ovation from the 500 Southwestern Republicans who had come to eat beef sirloin with him, and to hear him go all-out for the first time in his campaign. Bouncing slightly on his toes like a boxer, Eisenhower spoke of the necessity of a Republican victory in November. "I am convinced," said he, "that if the Republican Party does not win, we will seriously risk the existence...
Riding the plane elevator and the pilots' escalator, lunching on roast beef and strong Navy coffee, the old gaucho appeared to have the time of his life.. "In order for us to have ships like this," he told his party, "we must work very, very hard." Then, after a 5½-hour visit, the President took off from the Oriskany, whirred back to Rio on his first helicopter ride. From shore he signaled back "praise for the precision and efficiency shown...
...decade of 1910-20 for example, the University actually discriminated against athletes. On the other hand, others fear that adverse fortunes on the football field might lead to recruiting with a single aim in mind Given three choices abandoning intercollegiate football, as Chicago did, converting to a professional beef trust, or maintaining an amateur policy--the University has chosen the middle course. It will continue the attempt to attract the scholar-athlete, although this attempt may already have been made futile by the rank professionalism existing on today's latercollegiate gridirons...
Last week the aborigines, who have been holding nightly rainmaking ceremonial dances, gave up in despair. Government medicine men also admitted defeat, radioed northern cattlemen that no relief could be expected until next November's monsoon-if it came. One result: there will be no beef available for export to Britain this year...
...with his problem," says Rice. "At the speeds contemplated for the future, aluminum will relax and lose much of its strength. Canopies of today's materials will soften like putty and pull from their foundations. Radar equipment may give the wrong message . . . And the pilot would simmer like beef stew without refrigeration...