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...Dunster House dining room is illuminated by two gargantuan chandeliers, each consisting of three concentric circles of lightbulbs. The bottom and outermost circle contains sixteen bulbs, the middle fourteen, and the top ten. Nothing spectacular, mind you, but a pleasant distraction from the business being presented at the far end of the room...
...Allen Dulles' deputy at CIA for nearly ten years, later headed a 360-man shop at the Pentagon as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, is now the State Department's Far Eastern expert. At the Pentagon, Bill occupied an office in the outermost "E" ring just down the hall from where his father once worked for Stimson. Now, in the State Department, Bill is a seasoned pro and is in a position to give Mac, the gifted amateur, sound advice on any sensitive subject. Bill is married to former Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...Rowse remarked in his masterpiece, The England of Elizabeth, that "Human egoism is the greatest motive force in the world." In his claims for his biography of Shakespeare, Rowse has stretched the greatest motive force to its outermost limits. His work has, he announces, "shed light upon problems hitherto intractable, produced results which might seem incredible...." He has solved, "for the first time and definitely," the riddles of the sonnets, he has established "a firm chronology" for Shakespeare's life, he has brought about "an unhoped-for enrichment of the contemporary content and experience that went into a number...
...Boss Allen Dulles fended Mc Carthy off, and Bill Bundy served as his deputy for nearly ten years. In 1961, Kennedy moved him to the Pentagon, and his new office in the outermost "E" ring is just down the hall from where his father used to operate under Stimson...
Dirty Snowballs. Whipple is the author of the "dirty snowball" theory of comets. He believes comets form, molecule by molecule, out of frozen gases beyond the outermost planets. They pick up bits of dust and start drifting ever so slowly toward the distant sun. When they gather speed as they approach the sun, their surface gets hotter, turning some of the frozen gas to vapor and freeing some of the dust to form the comets' glowing heads and tails. When an old comet disintegrates, it leaves bits of fluff to wander in space...