The new presidential plane Columbine III was ready, after weeks of test flights, to carry Ike and his party to a Thanksgiving holiday* at the Augusta, Ga. National Golf Club. Before takeoff, Mamie Eisenhower christened the new Super-Constellation in a brief ceremony at Washington's National Airport, using, instead of the traditional champagne, a soda bottle full of water from Colorado's north fork of the South Platte River (a favorite presidential trout stream).
Mamie Fidgeted. The new plane, 19 ft. 9 in. longer than the Columbine II, is decorated in various shades of green, and...
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