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...Said one Westinghouse vice president: "Frivolous features on appliances that were nothing more than second-martini ideas have claimed unnecessarily hundreds of thou sands of dollars in research money." If the money wasted by industry on meaningless model changes were plowed into basic research, the genuinely new products would blossom that much faster...
...Nikita and party climbed into an air-conditioned bus with radiotelephone, television set, and bar for a tour of the green Austrian countryside, no good will began to blossom. Though Khrushchev has no reported heart condition (but is eminently qualified at a hefty 66 years old), the Russians called off a night on 12,461-ft. Gross Glockner, Austria's highest mountain, for unexplained "medical reasons." And in Vienna one old lady gave the popular verdict: "He's getting a lot less attention than that good-looking Shah of Iran, who visited here last month...
...Elysee Palace. Unsmiling, the Soviet, British and U.S. delegations in turn climbed up the Elysee's colonnaded staircase to their destination: a sunny salon where once Madame de Pompadour used to hold intimate dinners for her cronies in the court of Louis XV. There, in view of the blossom-laden chestnut tree that dominates the Elysee gardens, the fateful confrontation began...
...Private Citizen. That afternoon Syngman Rhee left the presidential palace for Pear Blossom House, his private residence in Seoul. As his bulletproof Cadillac moved along the two-mile route-at first he had insisted that he wanted to walk, "so as not to use government transportation''-his countrymen once again recalled that, for all his political sins. Syngman Rhee. 85, was nonetheless the father of South Korea's independence. The crowds that two days earlier had been calling for his death began to applaud him. And when he reached Pear Blossom House, where he placidly settled down...
...adaptability that makes opponents claim he strives to be all things to all men. Though a right-wing nationalist, he was also a friend of many left-wingers who later became the leaders of Japan's Socialist Party, and the friendships have endured. Graduating in the cherry blossom season of 1920, the newly married Kishi became a civil servant in the Ministry of Commerce and for the next 16 years was indistinguishable from thousands of other bureaucrats. Clutching his newspaper and a black umbrella, he commuted between his modest home in suburban Shinjuku and a governmental beehive in Tokyo...