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...building is composed of four basic sections. The largest section, which runs parallel to the north wall of the Yard, is the laboratory wing forming the back of the building. The lab wing contains four levels of usable lab space topped by two levels of machinery for ventilation and exhaust of chemical fumes...
...Nixons were put up in an elegantly furnished seven-room suite that had been searched for electronic bugs by U.S. security agents before their arrival. But the President had barely settled in when he got an invitation to chat with Brezhnev-a parallel to the Peking journey, when Mao Tse-tung also invited him to an early, unscheduled interview. Facing each other across a long green felt-covered table, the two leaders conducted what were described by the White House as "frank and businesslike" talks. Those words were regularly, almost ritually used to describe the meetings for the rest...
...pictures have had deliberate racial overtones that are far from flattering to whites; the oppression of the apes has been equated with the denial of civil rights to U.S. blacks. In Conquest, the racial parallel will be explicit. The climactic uprising, says Dehn. "is a little bit like the Watts riot...
...point Scott talked of the 1954 advance of the North Koreans across the 17th Parallel against the South Koreans. An aide leaned over and murmured something...
...world's financial powers should not talk only about money reform but should also hold "parallel conversations" about lowering barriers to world trade...