Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower sits in a car and chats with his wife Mamie, who met him at National Airport in Washington, Oct. 27, 1950, as he arrived in a B-17 plane from Charleston, W.V., for talks with Army officials the next day. Signs are multiplying that the general is slated for the supreme command of the Allied forces in Europe. (AP Photo/Byron Rollins)