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...will continue to preoccupy him at his next engagement, at brother Milton Eisenhower's Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa. After a few days Ike will be off again, with 15,000 other evacuees, to a secret destination, in the big three-day civil defense test in Washington. Then he will emplane for San Francisco, to speak at the U.N.'s tenth anniversary ceremonies, and fly right back for a five-day speaking tour of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.* In all, Ike will be on the road for 15 of June's 30 days...
...Greenspun column offered in evidence: "Senator Joe McCarthy has to come to a violent end . . . The chances are that McCarthy will be laid to rest at the hands of some poor, innocent slob whose reputation and life he has destroyed through his ... smear technique." Last week, after a five-day trial, a jury deliberated only two hours and 45 minutes, found Greenspun not guilty. Jurors said later that the Government failed to prove that the Greenspun column actually incited anyone to try to kill McCarthy...
...confided to her morning viewers in 92 cities: "Meeting so many generals, admirals and secretaries is a little overpowering for a girl." But her burble with the Brass was only one of the quick trips through which Arlene whirled her Home audience (weekdays, 11 a.m., NBC) in a five-day visit to Washington. There were breathless stops at all the tourist musts-the Lincoln Memorial, Supreme Court, Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Every few minutes, up to eight times an hour, reverence for the nation's shrines had somehow...
...catch at his New Colony Inn in Milwaukee, promptly got a court order restraining the show from barring his son. But the sport show managers still refused to let Jerry cast another fly. Before Jerry was banned, he had already caught more than 100 trout. Prizes: a five-day Las Vegas vacation, plus three one-week vacations in northern Wisconsin. He would like to donate the Wisconsin trips to local orphanages, but the managers are hard losers; they insist that the vacations are not transferable...
What is bankrupting transit is, to a great extent, U.S. prosperity. The rising standard of living means less need for the cheapest form of transportation. The five-day work week has cut Saturday transit traffic by 40% in most cities, and television keeps many riders home at night. But the biggest competition comes from the private automobile. While gasoline and tires were rationed during World War II, the transit companies prospered. But since 1945 millions of U.S. workers have turned their backs on the bus lines-including even bus drivers themselves. In San Francisco recently, a delegation of motormen...