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...because of the atmosphere, which is early roadhouse, or the cuisine, which could have been learned in a vending machine, but because Dominick is an irascible bounder who only lets in people he likes. Everybody wants to be liked by Dominick, but he stands in his doorway before a cavern of empty tables and announces that he is booked solid. He lets Jack Lemmon in, and Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Jim Aubrey, president...
...This Is a Church." At last, through the open doors, the horses' hoofs were heard. Cardinal Gushing moved down the aisle, and as he approached the doorway, a woman in black stepped toward him. He took the dead President's mother in his arms, murmured, "Rose, my dear, my dear...
Missing the Circus. Rusk usually tried to arrange appointments so that ministers from the same geographic area did not follow one another; thus two Europeans, or two Asians, normally would not meet in the doorway. Similarly, he favored mixing "problem" countries with "no problem" countries-so that he could have a breather between controversial sessions. Sometimes "problem" ministers proved to be just the contrary. Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Vaclav David, after probing for areas in which the U.S. and Czechoslovakia could expand trade, turned willingly to discussion of one longstanding problem. The Czechs, who in the past have refused...
...started at 4:30. Outside the yellow fake-Gothic home of a czarist merchant prince, a crowd of 60 reporters and photographers stood watch. A bevy of iron gargoyles glared down at them from atop the gates. At 6:25 p.m. the appearance of a familiar face in the doorway was not reassuring. It was Semyon ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin, nicknamed because of his long, high-pitched harangues during the endless test ban talks in Geneva; when Scratchy summoned his automobile, there was speculation that he was on his way to consult with Nikita Khrushchev over some hitch...
...Moscow, Envoy Harriman operated smoothly out of a tiny improvised office facing the courtyard on the ninth floor of the U.S. embassy. The only extra furnishings were a portrait of George Washington and two extra chairs, one of which was shoved into the open doorway by his secretary. Since the office is usually a waiting room, many a surprised visitor tried to vault the chair. During the mornings...