THE ADMINISTRATION: Doctors' Verdict

Down the ramp of a Military Air Transport Service Super Constellation at Washington National Airport one morning last week came the familiar figure—a big man, shoulders somewhat hunched, black Homburg squarely planted, a briefcase in hand, blue eyes sober behind rimmed bifocals. After a six-day trip to London, Paris and Bonn, John Foster Dulles was home once again. His mileage to date in his service since Jan. 21, 1953 as U.S. Secretary of State: 559,988 miles, the equivalent of 22 times around the world, or to the moon and back.

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