THE PRESIDENCY

Adenauer & Plowshares

At week's end, withdrawing temporarily from the budget battlefield. Dwight Eisenhower flew to his Gettysburg farm to play host to West Germany's ancient (81) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who stopped off at the farm for an informal chat before proceeding to Washington this week for serious talks on U.S.-German problems.

Before boarding a Lufthansa Constellation for the flight to the U.S., his second in twelve months. Adenauer told newsmen with deadpan jocularity that his main purpose in visiting Gettysburg was to learn something about farming. In a figurative sense, he was indeed concerned about plowshares--the kind beaten out of swords. Hopeful sounds from the five-nation disarmament talks in London had stirred German fears that the U.S. might make some kind of arms-reduction deal with the Russians without insisting on German reunification as part of the bargain.

At Gettysburg, it turned out, Adenauer did learn something about farming. After lunch (creamed chicken), Ike guided his guest around the farm, lectured him on the care and breeding of Abderdeen-Angus cattle. Late that afternoon, President and Chancellor flew to Washington together in Ike's Aero-Commander.

Last week the President also:

P:Notified Congress of his "full support" for a $1.5 billion, five-year federal school-construction program- worked out by liberal Democrats and Eisenhower Republicans on Capitol Hill as a compromise between Ike's original $1.3 billion, four-year request and a Democratic $3.6 billion, six-year plan.

P: Heard from the State Department that Nationalist China's Ambassador Hollington K. Tong had delivered the Chiang Kai-shek government's "profoundest regrets" for an ugly incident in Taipei, Formosa: a mob. angered by a U.S. Army court-martial's acquittal of a G.I. charged with voluntary manslaughter of a Chinese, stormed into the U.S. embassy and injured at least nine U.S. citizens (see FOREIGN NEWS).

P:Heartened an American Red Cross convention in Washington with a prediction that "America will respond" to the A.R.C.'s need for an extra $50 million to replenish its disaster fund.

P:Allotted $1,000,000 for disaster relief in Oklahoma, battered by floods, hailstorms and high winds.

*Winding up a series of six regional G.O.P. conferences last week. Republican Xational Chairman Meade Alcorn reported ''a strong feeling against federal aid to education" in all regions except New England, promised to report to the President "exactly what we heard."

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