Army
FALLING INTO SPACE.
M./Sgt Andrew C. Poling, El
kins, West Virginia, falls as he
deliberately releases his hold
on a sheer rock wall he was
climbing while attending the
Army's Cold Weather and
Mountain School at Fort
Greely, Alaska. The rope that
Sgt Andrew's hands are reach
ing to clutch is tied to another
man who held it taut when he
fell, stopping him before he
was smashed against the cliff
or ground.
Eisenhower Today Becomes
Oldest U.S. President
WASHINGTON. Wl —President
Eisenhower today became the old
est man ever to serve as Presi
dent of the United States.
The Library of Congress wasn’t
able to pinpoint the exact moment
at which he took over that dis
tinction from President Andrew
Jackson, but it was an hour or
two after noon.
Martin Van Buren took the oath
of office to succeed Jackson 11
days before Jackson reached his
70th birthday. Eisenhower will be
70 on Oct. 14, with a bit more
than three months of his term
remaining.
NYET!
NEW YORK, OP) — Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev blasted New
York at a reception given by
Afghanistan at the Waldorf-As
toria Hotel Friday night. He told
newsmen he didn’t like the city
because it was a “concrete cen
ter.”
“I don’t like the life here. There
is no greenery. The poor people
who live here. It would make a
stone sick,” Khrushchev said.
Khrushchev also dismissed the
plush Waldorf - Astoria, saying
“We have better in Moscow.”
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Alaska Leads All lhe Rest . . .
Active civil aircraft registered
with the FAA topped 70,000 for
for the first time according to the
recent tabulation included in
FAA’s new booklet “U.S. Active
Civil Aircraft by State and
County.”
Alaska leads all other states on
the basis of active civil aircraft
per capita. The new state has a
registration of 63.2 aircraft per
10,000 persons.
Nigeria Is Friend of U.S.
LAGOS, Nigeria, 0PI—Nigeria is
confidently looking forward to its
development as a free nation
“with the good will of friends like
the United States and the United
Kingdom.”
Prime Minister Sir Abubakar
Tafawa Balewa told a U.S. dele
gation that his nation—the newest
and most populous in Africa—ex
pects to draw on American and
Briitsh experience.
“We Nigerians are friends of
the United States,” he said.
“There is no doubt about it. We
want that friendship to become
stronger.”
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WHO WOULD YOU HAVE AS FIRST LADY? |
by Vant Neff
Among the strongest impres
sions left by the TV presenta
tion of the recent Conventions
of the country’s two political
parties, were the quick but pen
etrating close-ups of the distaff
members of the leading political
families.
A kaleidoscope of memorable
pictures flick by the mental
eye — Mrs. Barry Goldwater,
frankly crying; Mrs. Lyndon
Johnson — Ladybird of Texas,
her sad eyes perhaps belying
her quick sup-1 ]
port of her hus-1
band’s accept-1
ance of second |
place; Mrs. Ei
senhower, never
gayer, eternally
feminine in her
open pleasure
at the gift pre- W
sealed to her; j
Mrs. Eleanor-'**
Roosevelt, ^ I
a fighter to the -ssHi*
end — but not Mrs. Jacqueline
Sr»d,a-“ds
no, for it is she who, whether
we liked it or not, made the role
of wife of the President of the
United States a unique figure,
with importance in her own
right.
Thus again, whether we like
it or not, the whole population,
men as well as women, will to
day take a real interest in the
woman who stands at the next
President’s side. This summer,
then, every eye is turned on
Pat Nixon, present on the TV
screen almost constantly; and
many a thought was turned
towards Cape Cod where Jackie
Kennedy endured the almost
unendurable waiting, held
there by doctor’s orders.
Certainly, American women
are willing to admit this real
interest. In it is a natural inter
est, in our country, where it is
largely the women who uphold
the community and civic duties
of the family. It is the women
who more frequently have the
time for participation and for
thoughtful study of special
issues, and consequently it is
they who very often are respon
sible for “getting out the vote”,
i.e., in making sure that the men
in their family make time to
vote.
Moreover, in the job of the
Presidency, perhaps the most
difficult, exacting job for which
any man was ever chosen, one
cannot underestimate the im
portance of a stable and ful
filling domestic life, of a rich
home life free of petty worries
and nagging anxieties. Finally,
in the role of hostess to the
world, where she must be able
to welcome dignitaries as far
apart as a Queen of England
and a Shah of Persia, to plan as
efficiently dinner for 200 as
breakfasts for 2 or 3 close ad
visers, the President’s wife must
be a poised, gracious and ma
ture chatelaine, whose sure hand
guides a smooth household.
Thus, both in her own right,
in her role as a gracious hostess,
in practicing the art of inspir
ing and influencing without ap
pearing to do either, in smooth
ing the daily life of the Presi
dent, his wife must bear on her
shoulders the feminine counter
part of that heaviest job in the
world!
In the two women who now
pass under this highly critical
scrutiny, we find certainly the
widest contrasts that could be
imagined; and yet, just as cer
tainly, there must be close sim
ilarities.
Both Pat Nixon and Jacque
line Kennedy are highly intelli
gent, attractive, vital women,
tremendously anxious to create
the stable and fulfilling atmos
phere within which their hus
bands can function most effi
ciently for the country.
And yet, beneath the surface,
these two women are as far
apart as the sands of Cape Cod
are from the sand3 of Santa
Monica.
Jacquelne Bouvier Kennedy,
almost continental in her dark
good looks and flair for clothes,
has the wealthy family back
ground, the private school edu
cation, and the social training
to entertain graciously and to
make her distinguished guests
feel at home. Her deep intellli
gence and intellectual interests
will help her to understand the
problems that confront her hus
band. Her sensitivity will be
called upon to make her feel the
problems that she has never
herself experienced, the strug
gle for existence, for a place in
the world that the average man
and woman faces today, even in
the midst of great prosperity.
Pat Nixon, on the other hand,
the daughter of a miner turned
farmer, has trained herself in
fashion, in entertaining, and is,
today, considered a “fantastic”
housekeeper, and an excellent
hostess. While possibly not an
intellectual, her fine intelligence
and tremendous appetite for
study will be put to good use —
as in her world travels with the
Vice-President — to enable her
to talk knowingly with her in
ternational guests.
Again, Pat Nixon, has of
course, faced all the problems
that confront the average young
American. She has worked since
her teens; she has stretched
she has
and
do”; she
has sewn and
taken in seams
and let out
earns. She
knows these
things at first
hand —• and it
is hoped that
she feels them
still, “inside”!
Jackie Ken
nedy is living
through a dis
turbing time in
Mrs. Pat Nixon her own life. As
a very, very young woman
(even in relation to the young
political personalities all around
her), she is just building her
family. Despite her wealth and
the service and assistance she
will be able to have, she may
still not be able to participate in
all the activities the President’s
wife is called upon to engage in.
As an older mother, Pat
Nixon, whose children are in
their teens, of course, is freed
to take full part in the Wash
ington, the National, and in
deed, the world-wide scene.
Pat and Jackie — so neatly
are the checks and balances ar
ranged on each side that the
choice is difficult. Perhaps the
problem for American women,
at least, may be boiled down to
this consideration: If the wom
en of America must “relate”
(as the psychologists put it) to
the President’s wife, will they
be able to relate to Jackie Ken
nedy, very young, very shel
tered, yet paradoxically flexible,
sensitive, with a good sense of
humor? Or, will they feel more
at home with Pat Nixon who
has learned to live through lean
years and ' prosperous ones,
deadly serious in her role as
Dick’s wife, with maturity and
poise acquired the “hard way”?
You make the choice, you may,
well need the help of a woman.