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...third shot plopped sluggishly onto the soggy 18th green of the Gettysburg Country Club, rolled to within 10 ft. of the pin, stopped. His fourth rolled smartly toward the cup, dropped with a pleasant plunk for a par. Said smiling Dwight Eisenhower, having added a polished ending to his rusty first round of golf since Augusta last November: "It sure feels good to get a round under your belt...
...happen to be one of those people who likes cabbage in all its forms"). He welcomed a gathering of Governors calling at the White House to discuss proposed changes in unemployment-insurance laws. He chaired a meeting of the National Security Council. Then he hopped onto a helicopter for Gettysburg...
...continued behind a wall of privacy calculated to give the participants a chance to thresh out their problems without distractions. At least once a day, Ike's deadpanned Press Secretary Jim Hagerty and Macmillan's ebullient Pressman Peter Hope briefed newsmen at hectic conferences held in a Gettysburg gymnasium 25 miles away from Camp David. Reporters generally had to follow Hagerty and Hope to their hotel rooms for private briefings on what the other briefings had actually been about. Then they returned to the gymnasium for still more clarifying explanations-from each other. But gradually, despite the privacy...
...GETTYSBURG, Pa., March 22--President Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan joined in prayers for world peace today while their top aides considered steps to deal with Russia's economic threat to the free world, and the Mid-East situation...
...them all, right there in Washington. Democratic leaders in both houses set up a solemn joint session to hear the U.S. Army band play patriotic tunes, the U.S. Coast Guard cadet chorus sing Civil War songs (Dixie, Battle Hymn of the Republic), and Actor Fredric March read the Gettysburg Address...