National Affairs: Haying Time

While Dwight Eisenhower was making hay at the Summit, the man who ran against him in 1952 was watching the haymaking down on the farm. From his home at Libertyville, Ill. ailing Adlai Stevenson last week scratched out a note to ailing Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md.: "Dear Lyndon: I am sitting on my little farm recuperating from bronchial pneumonia. They are making hay out here. But now the tractor has broken down; the hay truck is broken down; the hay wagon has collapsed, dumping 50 bales of hay in the middle of the driveway, and my farmer has lacerated his arm on a hay hook. Besides, it is hot. I think I will just go back to bed, cough for a while, and take it easy. And that would be the best thing you can do, too. Cordially, Adlai."