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...pine-paneled, second-floor office, surrounded by statues of the horses he loves, David Lilienthal was doing his best to sever the connection once & for all. He was trying, with every hope of success, to create the most destructive weapon in the world-an atomic bomb even bigger than the bomb which had wiped out Nagasaki and Hiroshima just two years...
Fernandes' wrinkled parchment skin, his few wisps of grey hair, his stooped walk, belie his energy and drive. When he stands against a window in his second-floor office in Rio's ornate Itamarati Palace, it seems almost possible to see through his fragile frame. Yet Fernandes tackles a diplomatic fight with all the enthusiasm of a young attache...
...Million. Later, in Seoul, Boy Scouts brought us bowls of bitter Korean tea in General Li Bum Suk's second-floor office. Looking alertly at us through his black, tortoise-rimmed glasses, General Li outlined his movement. "We Koreans have behind us 4,000 years of good history. The present situation is confused only because the people have forgotten their heritage. Our nation must have the strength to prevent invasion by another nation and we must build up our youth to this...
Then he whisked off to the swank Savoy Hotel and the first of a dizzy round of lunches, parties and talks with England's tweedy intellectuals. He latched on to many a new idea, spent much time in his second-floor suite redrafting his speeches in the light of what he had heard. At a second press conference he gave his own simplified version of U.S.-Russian relations. He likened the two countries to two big dogs facing each other: "For a long time they smell each other-when they're satisfied, they usually don't want...
Eight miles from our downtown office we saw one that offered for a bed a straw mat covered with an old army blanket. It had no kitchen utensils, dining-room chairs, or light fixtures. It did have a lovely fountain on a vast second-floor terrace. Price: $250 a month...