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Back at the White House at week's end, while the President golfed at Gettysburg, Adams wrestled with his conscience. "It'll be a tough gale to ride out," said one top White House aide. "They are just going to hound him until he has to leave," said Rachel Adams to the Minneapolis Tribune. Adams himself worked away on a day-to-day basis, well knowing that the final decision would have to be his alone. One thing he had already decided: if, after a careful measuring of headlines and political forces, it looked as though his continued...
...Gettysburg College...
After a two-month search, the University plucked John M. Yovicsin, the young (and successful) coach at Gettysburg, and hired him to replace Jordan. Yovicsin's first team was badly hobbled by injuries, yet won three games, gave Princeton a bad scare before bowing, 28 to 21, but just did not have enough for Yale. The result was a humiliating 54-0 beating in New Haven...
...week's end he coptered out to Gettysburg and put in a full 18 holes of golf before the sun slipped low, and his left shoulder stiffened with the old bursitis...
...White House until 9:45 one morning, he walked down the South Lawn to a quivering olive-drab giant, Army H34 Helicopter No. 64316, that needed only 34 minutes to set him down 80 miles away beside his home-town polling booth in Barlow Fire Hall, near Gettysburg. He tore the identifying #35 off the corner of his Pennsylvania primary ballot and boarded his bird again, whisking off to Harrisburg...