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...week long, important callers moved in and out of the Gettysburg office, where two-inch, bulletproof glass in heavy steel frames had just been placed over the windows. Marion Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Budget Director Rowland Hughes went in to talk about the HEW budget. Massachusetts' wise, cowlicked Representative Joe Martin, 71, Republican leader of the House, and California's pin-neat, trim (down 25 Ibs. to 208) William Knowland, minority leader of the Senate, went in for separate conferences on legislation, with incidental attention to politics. Each talked to the President about what...
...famous V-sign to signify his victory that day over 81 momentous years. All week long, post office trucks had brought a mountain of greetings and gifts to Sir Winston. A special messenger, U.S. Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich, had personally delivered a birthday present from Dwight Eisenhower: a three-inch gold medallion, struck off in the U.S. Mint, bearing a likeness of Churchill taken from Ike's own portrait of him. On its opposite side, a citation flanked a design of clasped hands between British and U.S. shields: "Presented . . . on behalf of his millions of admiring friends...
...feet, five inch Ray Zelek, a hot-and-cold performer, will be in the pivot. Irv Roberson, a 6 feet 1 sophomore who averaged 29 points a game in high school competition, and co-captain Dick Meade will start at guard...
...clue to the future of the University can be detected in the construction of a new 12-inch steam pipe...
...increased ten times; old masters are now almost beyond price. In all, sales this year in auction rooms and galleries will reach $65 million. Can the bull market keep up the pace? Says FORTUNE: "The long-range answer seems to be that it can-and probably will." More Per Inch. "Art is not only the symbol of wealth, it is the actuality of wealth," former Metropolitan Art Museum Director Francis Henry Taylor once pointed out. And as an investment, most collectors have found art to be right on a par with the bluest chip stocks. Vermeer's Portrait...