POLITICS: Come Home, Ike

"Will Ike come home in time?" is the greatest cliff-hanger question since Phil Sheridan was 20 miles away. As of New Hampshire Primary Day, these pertinent facts, and these only were clear:

1) Ike now wants to be President and will take any honorable step consistent with his military position to get the G.O.P. nomination.

2) His closest advisers have told him in terms of increasing urgency that he must come home by May 1 at the latest, and must declare his intention to come home within the next few weeks.

3) Nevertheless, Ike has...

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