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...became an amateur naturalist, and 3) found she was pretty handy at woodworking. From early morning until cocktail time, in fact, the twelve scarcely had a moment's idleness. They took trips to the U.N., attended the experimental theater at nearby Vassar College, spent the evenings reading aloud from Lord Dunsany, Thornton Wilder and Edna St. Vincent Millay. One man's blood pressure dropped 30 points; one woman's stomach disorder disappeared...
...proud and simple label, "Chase," and whose domestically detailed quizzes have been immortalized by a bit of campus doggerel: "What were the colors of Pamela's socks ?/Long white jobs with classy clocks./What did Don Quixote masticate ?/Old fried pidgeon served up in state." Whether reading Pater aloud by her own fireside, working out a Latin anagram, or putting her students through their paces in class, Teacher Chase cast her spell over thousands of Smith girls by her uninhibited showmanship, once astounded her doctor by babbling off the dates of all the Roman Emperors while coming...
Back in Belgrade. Russians and Yugoslavs met again in the Hall of Guards to sign the communiqué threshed out by their underlings. While the 1,500-word document was read aloud, Khrushchev made little faces at a couple of Russian cameramen he spotted in the crowd. When the reading finished, Tito signed for Yugoslavia, and Premier Bulganin, for the first time accorded the leading role, signed for Russia. The instant the signing was over. Khrushchev took over, leaping up to shake every hand within reach...
Expressionlessly, the handsome man with the greying blond hair and pale blue eyes read his own name aloud from ballot after ballot: "Gronchi . . . Gronchi . . . Gronchi . . ." At the 422nd time, the assembled Deputies and Senators of Italy's Parliament broke into applause, and Giovanni Gronchi, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, stopped reading and rose to acknowledge the cheers. He had just been elected President of the Republic of Italy...
...hour. In the morning, when Graves gives the order, eight scientists ride an elevator up the tower to the device cabin to arm the explosive device. They report each move by telephone to Graves in the command post. A checklist of from three to eight pages long is read aloud in the 20 minutes it takes to get the device ready-and the eight men can ride down the elevator to safety...