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...Dwight Eisenhower's picnic for the Pennsylvania Republican delegation two weeks ago, Donald Fine, nine-year-old son of Governor John Sydney Fine, was wearing an Ike button. A newsman asked young Fine whether it meant he liked Ike. Replied Donald, clearly a chip off the old block: "I think Eisenhower is a nice man. I think Taft...
...Eisenhower had handled himself very well and had probably converted some delegates-but not Governor Fine. He agreed that his differences with Ike on foreign policy had grown much smaller-but he still considered himself somewhere between Ike and Taft. When a politician handed Fine an "I Like Ike" button and asked him to put it on in courtesy to their host, Fine replied: "When I get to like Ike, I'll put a button on." Asked by a newsman what factors he would still consider before definitely making up his mind, Fine said: "Well, if I thought that...
Wellesley's cello-playing Thomas Hayes Procter, 66, minister of the Christian Church, professor of philosophy, and perennial favorite of the campus. In class, staring abstractedly into space or twiddling with his vest "twiddle button," "Mr. Plato" led a whole generation of girls through the intricacies of Greek thought (At a girls' college, "you don't have to be good; you just have to be a man"), became their father confessor, often officiated at their weddings-a kindly, rumpled man, who never found time to write a book because he was so "passionately excited by teaching...
Like thousands of other German youngsters, Hilde Speer, a button-bright 16-year-old student at Heidelberg's Elisabeth von Thadden School, would like nothing better than a chance to go to an American school. She saw her chance last spring in a notice in the local paper: a number of German youngsters were going to be sent to the U.S. as exchange students. Hilde wrote a letter stating her reason for wanting to go: "I want to become acquainted with the people [of the U.S.], the poor as well as the rich, the land, the big cities...
...reflexes and responses. Seeley, who lost both arms at 14 when he was run over by a train, now works his electric arm by six switches which are actuated by twitches of his shoulder muscles. With his new arm, he can dress himself (except for fastening his collar button), feed himself, write letters...