EISENH OW R /. I Toni g ht Pres i dent E is enhower is off on - his epoch ma ki n trip to Europe, h Asia, and Africa. The President, heading for Rome - on the f i rst leg 01' hie journey. He'll cover twent y-two thousand miles - before he returns home. Time - nineteen days. The most dramatic event - of the Eisenhower And administration, oae of the most dramatic - in American history. Today Mr. Eisenhower conferred - with his top advisors. Making last minute preparations - with Secretary ot State Herter, and the National Security Council. Secretary Herter, to join the President later, in Paris - for top level talks with Macmillan, Adenauer and :oeoaulle. Tonight, President Eisenhower - reporting to the American people over radio and television, es.plaining briefly - .I the meanin g of this trip. Which is:- that he wants to convince the free world - of our peaceful intentions, ud maintain p ersonal contacts - wi th our all ies . The President, then driving to the airport. Taking whe!'e they~e off for the Eterna l C it y - ~ i~eparin a mammoth receotion for the President or the~United state.... in lo1N 1 , POPULATION Today 1 e announcement by the State Department - hae a bearing on thfl. diepute over birth control. The question of " whether we ~ hould provide contraceptive information - to other coun~e~vent- over-population -- with too little rood /\ to go around. The State Department minimizes - this danger. Saying in Nineteen Seventy-Five the world will produce more than enougb food to take care of everybody. The Department, buing its opinion - on figures for the period from Nineteen Porty-light to Nineteen Fifty-Two. The figures, showing - the population of . wWc the world rose by ten per cent during those four years. llr >~ the food supply increased - by seventeen per cent. Food, rmm1nl ahead of population - by seven per cent. The experts expect the trend - to continue. Nore human beings - also more food for them. BRAZIL The situation in Brazil is confused - rollow1ng &1lta, . ~ > t , ~ M*••1••• ••: 11•" A group of air force officers _ - try · ing to . . . s~art an insurrect i on against Preeident Kubitschek. The officers - stealing everal planes, hijacking an airliner- · with thirty-eight · 1esengers aboard, Qtdering the pilot to fly to a military base - north of the Amazon. Landing - to find the army waiting for them. The Brazilian army - loyal - to President Kubitechek. still But some of the insurgents - ..-/at large, ind ineistl SJK they intend to keep the ant1-Kub1 techek movement alive. They accuse him of being -- pro-Communist. IRAQ In Iraq, a celebration that sounds like 1D111ething fr the days of medieval Islam. The Iraquie - sacrificing sheep. An/l'old tribal custom - of the Arabs. A ceremonial celebration. The reason for today 1 s celebration - the retum of Iraq•e strong man. Premier Kassem, out of the hospital - with nothing worse than a stiff arm. la Kassem, lucky to survive - ttA aasaaeinat1on attempta when he was h1~"!;.. three bullet■• " The Premier or Iraq, riding through Baghdad - with Bulgaria, renewing diploaat i c relations with the United States - after nine year,. Dr. Peter Voutoy, presenting his credentials - to Seoretar7 of State Herter. Dr. Voutov, pledging - better relation• bet•••• his country and ours. Quite a switch - fro ■ Nineteen Fifty, when Stalin forced Bulgaria - to break off relati>n1 with Washington. COHEN A west coast hoodlum - booked on suspicion of murder. Mickey Cohen - accused 01' making contradictory statements about said Whelan, an underworld figure -/--,. to have a lot ot· enemies, wilting into Rondelli 1 e restaurant - in the San Fernando valley. ietting into a t'ight - and shot a t'ew i-eet from Cohen•s table. Mickey Cohen claims - he doeen•t know a thing about the shooting. Says - he heard a scu1'1'le. Then, in the mobster• words - "there were three or 1'our shots - and I ducked." FLOOD The town of Frejus, on the French Riviera - a ehambles tonight) £i1owing - yeeterday•e flood. A dam, bursting - sending a wall of water eight feet high - crashing down on Frejus. Survivors eay it sounded like - an army or &.,I/ .u ...... ~ tank:; ,a■ \ 11=:thllll-b their town,8'£U .A a hundred blockbusters. Houeee - swept away, ~ Trucks and cars - sent 1p1nn1D1 end over end. Treea and telephone poles - snapped like match-sticks. Half of the town - nothing but wreckage 1n a sea of mud and water. The toll - three pundred dead, five hundred •tttt missing. PreJue - described by the travel books as "a parad1N of the Ri v1era." JIL[IIS Now exploration - and art. And Suzanne. Lad7 Wilkins. Lady Wilkins has opened a one- ■ an show, in New York. Or a one-woaan show? Anyway, her paintings feature portraits of explorers. And of course her late husband was - Sir Hubert lilkins, a giant - of Twentieth ~entur7 explorat.lca faaed for hia pioneering wort - in the Arctic and the Antarctic. Along the equator, too. Sir Hubert lilklaa you will recall, was the first to take a submarine, under Arctic ice. His portrait - the high spot of Lady iilklna• show. The picture, flanked by other men ot action - like Colonel Eddie tagan, Commander Calvert of the atoalo submarine •state•, and Albert orasso of the Circumnavigators Club. And one of•• - although soae visitors thought 1 w•s Admiral eary. What do moat people want when they sit for a portrait. L a dy Wilkins says they want to be flattered. llLill§ - 2 Lady Wilkins tells h ow she str a ightened the noae of one woaan and when her subject saw the .ortrait - she hurried to a plastic surgeon - for a profile just lite Suz-anne had painted for her. How did she hap p en to ■ eet Sir lubert? She••• an Australian - playing on Broadwa7. Sir Hubert Juat in fro ■ the frozen north. The 1trikin1, exotic Suzanne aa7a: - •1 read up on Str Hubert, ■et hi ■ - and•• ••r• aarried! Bingo! Diet. 4cc1DEIT Maybe - this is both: - a W isconsin hanter, cured of deafness - by bein g shot in the head. Robert Maurer or Monroe, Wisconsin - suffering troa a da ■ aged right ear - after g etting too close to a grenade during World War Two. Hard of hearin g - ever since. La s t week - Maurer out hinting, was p opped in the head - by a stray bullet. Bushed to the hoapital in an emergency operation, a surgeon removed - 1plintera of bone along with the bullet. lhen Robert Maurer caae out of the . e\ber - p resto - be found be could hear perfectly. The hunter, deafness cured by being ahot in the head. 1 must reae ■ber to tell Collette laasey about that - she's h ead oft~ anti-deafness movement. STEEL In his address to the nation Dng tonight - President Eisenhower entioned the steel ~tri k e again. Mr. Ei~e nh o wer, callin on labor and management - to end thie walkout. Terrnin the present ne otiations ~ • ~ critically haa important to the entire nation." Adding, h~/inetructed Federal Mediator, J oseph Finne g an - to keep negotiating around the clock. President Eisenhower ended with the hope - that he j mi g ht get word during his trip. •ord - about ~he strike being ia a little optimism over. There,:- ~4D1' tonight - in the ~nion announcement of a new bid - to come up with an agreement that both sides can accept.