Four Days Away

His third shot plopped sluggishly onto the soggy 18th green of the Gettysburg Country Club, rolled to within 10 ft. of the pin, stopped. His fourth rolled smartly toward the cup, dropped with a pleasant plunk for a par. Said smiling Dwight Eisenhower, having added a polished ending to his rusty first round of golf since Augusta last November: "It sure feels good to get a round under your belt."

Under Ike's belt last week, besides golf, were four days of comparative rest after arduous weeks of working as President even while pitching in harder than ever before on foreign policy during the absence of Foster Dulles. With Congress recessing and rushing out of Washington, the President scheduled a light week. He held his 155th press conference, ranged from summit talk to the possibility of using Texas cabbages to feed out-of-work coal miners in Kentucky and Pennsylvania ("I happen to be one of those people who likes cabbage in all its forms"). He welcomed a gathering of Governors calling at the White House to discuss proposed changes in unemployment-insurance laws. He chaired a meeting of the National Security Council. Then he hopped onto a helicopter for Gettysburg.

From his farm, Ike made trips to town for Good Friday services at the First Methodist Church and Easter Sunday services at Gettysburg Presbyterian Church, inspected his Aberdeen Angus, worked over speeches scheduled this week before the NATO ministers in Washington and a Gettysburg College convocation. This week, the holiday over, he planned to return to the White House after the annual Easter-egg roll. There, he would dig in to face a returning Congress and the crises which have become almost part of an average day's work.

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