Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-08
BY DAISY CLELAND


has no pattern this Sunday,
July 8.
1t is as varied as the colors
in a kaleidoscope-aS incon-
sistent as a political argument
and as undaunted as child
with a lollipop.
Congress is still working but
with a political eye to fence
mending before the conven-
tons. Officials, headed by the
President, are cycling Con-
greSS and Government bust
ness. Then there is a group
that is taking no more part in
the affairs of state or the
Juror of politics than the aver
age Mr.. and Mrs. Jones Of To-
peka. Kans.
The days when anyone who
was anyone" had deserted
Washington by July ! have
gone, and in their place is a
panorama of political hubbub
and international diplomacy.
The lull doesn't come until
well into August and some
times not even then.
Affects Party Scene
All of this does affect the
social world. When there are
people of high rank and posi-
ton here there is bound to be
entertaining of some sort.
Had the President not be-
come III we would have had a
State visitor in our midst this
weekend in the person of
Prime Minister Nehru of India.
All the pomp and circumstance
Of state dinners and receptions
would have taken place in
spite of the time of year.
The President is GONZALES
cling from his operation at
his Gettysburg farm with Mrs.
Eisenhower but it doesn't look
as if he will be out of the
fray for very much longer &C
cording to the White House.
He is expected to particle
pate in the beginning and the
end of the civil defense "oper-
alton alert" which is to take
place July 20-26. In between
it is planned that the Presi-
dent will attend the Panama
conference in Panama City,
July 81 and %. The next firm
date will be the convention on
August 20 in San Francisco.
Presidents Plans?
just what the EisenhowerS
will do for the three interven-
ing weeks has not been re-
leased. However, speculation is
that they may well stay at
their farm instead of their
usual trip to Denver.
In the first place there is
not much time. secondly his
personal physician has eX-
pressed an opinion that it
would be Just as well if the
President didn't go there and
thirdly this is the first summer
that their new farm has been
really completed.
The work of Government
business is also playing havoc
with vacation plans of the
Vice President and Mrs. Nixon.
At this point they are on an
official trip to the Far East and
expected back Wednesday or
Thursday.
After this. the Vice Presi-
dent is expected to stay close
to Congress until it adjourns
which is not expected much
before the first of August.
With their daughters off in
camp, Mrs. Nixon will prob
ably stay here in hopes that
they can get away for a very
short vacation before the con-
vention.
Much of the same is true Of
cabinet members who are
staying close by until Congress
adjourns.
Husbands Work
Secretary of State and Mrs.
Dulles went up to their Duck
Island for a few days last week
but are back. Mrs. Humphrey.
wife of the Secretary Of the
Treasury, went out to their
Cleveland residence over the
Fourth and her husband
planned to meet her there but
they are due back now.
Mrs. Wilson, wife of the
Secretary of Defense, is at
their Michigan home while her
husband helps to keep the
local scene lively, and Mrs.
Sinclair Weeks, wife of the
Secretary of Commerce, has
deserted the city for their
New Hampshire farm.
The Attorney General and
Mrs. Brownell plan to be here
until the convention to which
they will take three Of their
children, Joan, Ann and jim.
Tom Brownell is working this
summer on a ranch in Colo
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