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...White House when Ike was driven up in a White House Lincoln. Together, the Chief Democrat and the Promising Republican posed for pictures until the President cracked to photographers: "Come on, I've gotto talk business to this man." They talked alone in the President's second-floor study for half an hour, talked another half-hour with Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, Army Secretary Frank Pace and J.C.S. Chairman General Omar Bradley. Then, defying all laws of political gravity, Harry Truman took Ike on a personally conducted tour of the refurbished White House, finally...
Across the street, light filtered through the shutters on the second-floor suite of Madame Nahas, a plump, attractive woman of 40, and great friend and business partner of huge, fleshy Serag el Din. Policeman Imam Bey rang the bell. Serag el Din finally appeared, opened the door. Imam Bey produced a written order: by government decree, Serag el Din was ordered into enforced confinement on the 780-acre estate of his wife (a member of Egypt's biggest landowning family), 36 miles out of Cairo...
Redfield led the police to a second-floor bedroom closet and announced that a 400-lb. safe was gone. In it, said Redfield, were $250,000 in cash, about $100,000 worth of jewelry and $2,000,000 in negotiable securities. Still in the closet was a battered suitcase that the thieves had missed. While the cops' eyes popped, Redfield opened it and riffled through another $1,000,000 worth of securities. "Guess it's all there," he said...
...Sandringham, where local carpenters had spent the night making a simple coffin of oak cut from the forests nearby, Elizabeth greeted her mother and sister quietly, kissed her children and then went to the second-floor room where her father's body lay. At sundown,* a cortege of George's woodsmen and gamekeepers, headed by a kilted pipe-major playing a Scottish lament, wheeled the bier to the parish church, where the King's body lay in state for two days before being taken to London's 12th century Westminster Hall, adjoining the House of Commons...
...handsome, eleven-room frame house on Stevenson's 70-acre farm at Libertyville has been rented. Its present tenant: Marshall Field Jr., editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, and an old friend.) In the 28-room, brick-and-stone governor's mansion, Stevenson sleeps in a second-floor bedroom; on the walls hang portraits of great-grandfather and grandmother Fell and grandfather Stevenson. (The governor's ex-wife once remarked: "There must be some Japanese in the Stevensons; they worship their ancestors so.") Stevenson works at a long desk in a basement office...