A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 9, 1957

¶Who decided to withhold the real nature of the President's illness from the public for hours after the diagnosis, and why was that decision made? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Occlusion.

¶Where can you eat in the middle of an American highway? See BUSINESS, Pie in the Sky.

¶Within hours after Ike was stricken, a group of men gathered around an oaken table in the White House to make the decisions that had to be made. Who were they? What did they do? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, cover story.

¶Putting torches to Cuban cane fields and tossing bombs...

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