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Wall-to-Wall Wealth. Johnson was at his political best with a stump-stirring speech at a $100-a-plate roast beef dinner for 3,500 in the Fontainebleau Hotel. He paid tribute to Kennedy, vowed "to continue the work he began." He said he intends to prove "that Government can be progressive without being radical, prudent without being reactionary." In an atmosphere of wall-to-wall wealth, he announced that he would send his message on poverty to Congress this week. Then he turned to civil rights...
...Council, Pope Paul VI surprised the prelates by announcing that he will indeed visit the holy places of Jordan and Israel on a three-day trip next month. It will be the first papal voyage outside Italy since Napoleon forced the unhappy Pius VII to take up residence at Fontainebleau in 1812, and the first time since the days of St. Peter that a reigning pontiff has set foot in the Holy Land...
...British and U.S. colonels' uniforms just in case he decided to defect, even discussed a possible escape from Russia by submarine if things got hot. He recalled more relaxed moments pub-crawling and nightclubbing. Box of Chocolates. After London, there was Paris. Wynne gaily showed the Russian around Fontainebleau, Versailles, the Lido and the Moulin Rouge-and willingly picked up the tab. Penkovsky handed over 15 more rolls of film and had five sessions with Western intelligence agents. On occasions when Wynne came to Moscow on a business trip, Penkovsky usually passed his information to him concealed...
...offered his services as an espionage agent to the French government. As proof of his cloak-and-dagger abilities, Schinasi genially explained that he got his start in espionage in September 1959, when he had a civilian job at the U.S. armed forces gasoline and oil depot in Fontainebleau. Needing some extra money, Schinasi had dropped into the Russian embassy in Paris and proposed that he do some moonlighting...
...Russians agreed, and paid Schinasi a total of $600 for supplying the names of all the U.S. service chiefs at Fontainebleau, a list of the petroleum products used at the depot, and information on U.S. gas masks. By July 1960, the Russians were so delighted with his work that they suggested he develop his talent at an espionage school in the Soviet Union; he cannily refused...