Farewell to Colorado

Vacations, as every vacationer knows, have a way of seeming all too brief, and the President's was no exception. As he climbed aboard the presidential plane, the Columbine, at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base last week, Ike's last words were: "Boy, how I hate to go!"

Several shades tanner and half an inch slimmer in the waist than when he left Washington six weeks before, the President was "delighted" with his stay in Colorado and, according to his physician, "never felt better." But his vacation had been only a partial escape from the cares and chores of office. During the six weeks, he received 152 official visitors, signed 111 bills and 318 other state documents.

On the way to Washington last week, the Columbine stopped at Chicago to pick up five passengers, all named Eisenhower, who were to be guests at the White House: son John, daughter-in-law Barbara and the President's three grandchildren.

Facing the President in the week ahead was a heavy flow of problems, personages and papers. But first there was more traveling to do. The second morning after his return, the President again boarded the Columbine, headed north for a televised speech to a $100-a-plate Republican rally in Boston Garden (see below).

Last week the President also:

P:Okayed the resignations of 1) Chrysler Corp. Board Chairman K. T. (for Kaufman Thuma) Keller, director since 1950 of the Defense Department's Guided Missiles Office, 2) Craig R. Sheaffer, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Sheaffer, Iowa pen manufacturer, had been on the way out ever since his attempt to get Allen V. Astin fired from his post as Bureau of Standards director detonated the great battery-additive debate (TIME, April 27).

P: Directed the new, 15-member Committee on Government Contracts to begin enforcing no-discrimination clauses in federal contracts with private employers. Within the Federal Government, said the President, "tolerance of inequality would be odious."

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