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...early as 7 o'clock. The morning is sacred territory, generally reserved for the "project," the book proposed by a candidate as part of his reason for coming. Each fellow has a study with the inevitable sliding glass door leading out to a first-floor terrace or a second-floor balcony. Before noon the most delicate knock on a resident humanist's door requires supreme courage. Even the ring of a telephone constitutes a gross intrusion...
...stepped out of her hotel precisely on schedule at 9 a.m. Dressed in a smart, gold-trimmed dark blue suit, her blond hair perfectly in place, she made her way to Grahame Gardner Ltd., a small local clothing firm. After greeting the proprietors, she climbed the stairs to a second-floor workshop and proceeded to win the seamstresses' hearts-if not their votes-by sitting at one of their machines and sewing away for a minute or two. Television cameras filmed the event for the evening news. By the time Thatcher left 45 minutes later, most of the women...
...morocco leather, there were nine copies of the document, one each for each participant in Hebrew, Arabic and English. White House crews had already tended the greening patch of grass at the site of the ceremony, placed a low riser on the spot and then tenderly carried from the second-floor Treaty Room the sturdy Victorian table that had been pur chased in the time of Ulysses S. Grant. Used by the Cabinet up to the day of Teddy Roosevelt, the table had witnessed some important business. Calvin Coolidge used it for the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which...
...attackers cut loose with machine guns, pistols and automatic rifles from roof tops across the street. As the first volleys of the surprise attack hit the building, Sullivan and Colonel Leland Holland, the defense attache, took up a position at a command post in Sullivan's second-floor office. The Marine guards, clad in flak jackets and under instructions from Sullivan to refrain from firing back with their shotguns, lay down a cloud of tear gas. Attackers, surging against the locked gate like a human battering ram, burst into the compound. Others scaled the embassy...
...down, while twirling a lock of his unruly hair, or perhaps puff on his pipe, then suddenly erupt in a smile and announce a solution. Interrupted by parades of visitors to his Mercer Street house, he could resume his work almost as soon as they stepped out of his second-floor study. Recalls British Author C.P. Snow: "Meeting him in old age was rather like being confronted by the Second Isaiah?even though he retained traces of a rollicking, disrespectful common humanity and had given up wearing socks...