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...person who had been hanging around the show for days, the only real surprise was the stand-by's shock at his discovery. "Every single one of us was briefed beforehand," one Dotto winner told TIME last week. "But it was all done so subtly, you could never say positively that you'd been given any specific answer. One day I finally went up to one of the producers and said: 'How on earth can you get away with it?' He looked me right in the eye and said, 'I don't know what...
...Communists had first threatened to boycott the conference unless the West agreed beforehand to stop its tests, but when soft-spoken James B. Fisk, executive vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories, announced that the U.S. would show up anyway, the Communists decided to let their scientists go too. One of Gromyko's top aides, Semyon Tsarapkin, kept a beady eye on things, but the top Soviet scientist, jovial Evgeny Fedorov, turned out on occasion to be freer to make decisions without consulting home than the Westerners (including scientists from Britain, France and Canada). After seven weeks' discussion...
...West Germany, under political pressure from Socialists who compared the U.S. landing with Hungary, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government chided the U.S. for failing to notify NATO beforehand, as NATO partners had informally agreed to do after Suez...
...very border. It was the murder of a pro-Nasser editor, assassin unknown, that set off the mob against Lebanon's pro-Western government. There was no clear evidence that Nasser wanted the outbreak at that moment or had decreed its timing. He had merely fanned existing discontent beforehand, and his agents were prepared to ride it afterward. As Cairo, Damascus and Moscow radios dinned encouragement of the insurrection, a message crossed the Syrian border, on the person of an eccentric Belgian diplomat, addressed to persons unknown, in Beirut: "Fire at police, disarm agents. Continue shooting all day. Blow...
...think I'll pick up Mike beforehand. We said I'd pick him up on the way over...