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...gymnasium, which had been converted into an auditorium, was lined with people-women in shorts, men with straw hats, kids with sunburned faces. Between them, smiling to their applause, moved the President of the U.S., on his way to the auditorium for his weekly press conference. Uppermost in Ike's mind: the forthcoming visit to the U.S. of Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Said the President to the 95 newsmen at the press conference: "I would hope for a bettering of the atmosphere between the East and the West ... I am trying to do my best to see whether...
...citizens in the Central Square area interviewed, one half had no answer to the question, "What are the issues uppermost in your mind?" Those who did respond named peace and economic problems as the chief issues...
...Dwight Eisenhower wound up three weeks and 6,860 miles of campaigning by plane and train last week, one sobering prospect appeared to lie uppermost in his mind. For other Republicans there would be more prop-stops and politicking in the years to come. But for him, 1958 marked the last campaign in which his own position was at stake, in which his own concerns could be affected. Propelled by that thought, the President dwelled often and with great earnestness on his remaining two years in the White House, on the legacy of achievement he hoped that those two years...
...first reluctant to spend as much time away from the Radiation Lab as his new job will require, Chancellor-elect Seaborg has pledged himself to "keep uppermost in.mind the crucial and classical function of a university in society: to foster free inquiry and teaching under the highest possible standards of objective scholarship." But many scientists will still wonder whether one of the world's best chemists should pour himself into the world of university management-which, even at one of the best campuses in the nation, consists largely of parking problems, building plans and ruffled regents...
...Uppermost in our minds" were three "haunting questions" posed by Swedish Economist Per Jacobsson, the fund's managing director. The problems: 1) Is it possible to halt inflation in a world so anxious for expansion? 2) Can the ravenous capital appetites of underdeveloped countries be appeased without further inflation (see below)? 3) How can world currencies, undermined by inflation, be stabilized...