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...parade of precise details of the atomic process, e.g., how to extract uranium concentrates from raw uranium ore. With this new knowledge, other nations could save years of duplicating research, speed up their atomic programs with less cost and effort. For the small, underdeveloped nations, in particular, the rich buffet of know-how was a memorable feast. Waving a thick sheaf of scholarly reports, one Israeli scientist declared happily: "This'll keep me busy for years...
...delegates trooped off to the buffet, the milling newsmen (there were 1,400 assembled there) were already predicting that no real decisions would be reached at Geneva. Ignoring the portents, delegates doggedly cultivated the air of good fellowship. All up and down Geneva's shoreline, villas resounded with the clinking of glasses and the clatter of plates as Russians dined the British, British dined the Russians, Russians dined the French...
...Four met once more, and each delivered speeches declaring they favored increased communication between the two blocs. At the buffet, Bulganin said plaintively to Ike that his arms-inspection plan would not work because it is so easy, for example, to hide a four-engine bomber from air detection. Ike grinned and said: "If you think it is, please show...
From 6 to 8 p.m. an informal buffet supper will be held in the Eliot House courtyard for seniors and their guests...
...afternoon, the varsity baseball team will play Yale at Soldiers Field. That evening a buffet supper is planned in the Eliot Courtyard...