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...only got to see 30 miles of it around Moscow, but what I saw impressed me tremendously. Yes, tremendously. They put us up in the new Hotel Sovietskaya, the finest hotel I've ever seen-better than anything in Britain. All I had to do was ring the buzzer, and they'd bring me anything I wanted-anything, they said. And what food! Russian breakfasts are the biggest I've ever seen. They served me four eggs for breakfast every day. The menu had 200 dishes. I had a steak almost every...
...minute a buzzer sounded loud over the field. A stock man rushed from one of the barracks and hopped into a Sabre-jet as three mechanics began to warm up the jet itself. Within three minutes the plane was in the air. As it taxied down the runway the guide shouted that the pilot was a major, just back from Korea. For the first time the guide seemed impressed with what he was describing...
...impeccably dressed, the count operates from a deep couch in the corner of his immense office. Across the room is a board with vertical lines of electric buttons. At a sign from the count, an attendant leaps forward, then leaps back to punch whichever button the count indicates. The buzzer-button system calls the count's top executives into his presence. The employee answers the count's question, receives his instructions, then bows his way backward from the count's presence, careful to avoid a pratfall over a wastebasket or another vice president...
Nestling all the way, the varsity basketball team, with four sophomores in its opening thorn in the Crimson's side, sank the winning shot as the buzzer sounded, ending the overtime and crushing the home fans' hopes for the varsity's first Eastern intercollegiate Basketball League victory...
Center Doug Manchester scored the first of his four goals shortly thereafter--he also tallied an assist--and the Yardlings were on their way; only the final buzzer (at the end of a shortened last period) could stop them...