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...choice was between working for a local lawyer who wanted to improve the Ivy-League image of his office, or for a bank--a little slow, perhaps, behind the teller's window, but good money for smiling and counting. So I wore tweed and joked with earnest sophistication everywhere I applied for a summer...
Kids say the darnedest things. Why, only the other day a nine-year-old named Robert-his surname remains undisclosed-marched into a busy midtown Manhattan bank and said, "This is a holdup! Don't say a silent word!" The teller giggled-until the child leveled a silver automatic at her. "I have a gun and give me money," the boy insisted. After receiving $118, Robert smiled, said "Thanks," and ran off into history as the city's youngest bank robber...
...testing and development of the bomb. However, Oppenheimer's willingness to cooperate with other nations, coupled with his past political connections (the FBI had a comprehensive dossier describing all his affiliations with members of the Communist Party), led government hawks and Oppenheimer's former Los Alamos colleague. Edward Teller, to believe that the Father of the Atomic Bomb would be willing to put his idea up for adoption. In 1954, Oppenheimer was stripped of his security clearance...
...decision, as a friend said, "almost killed" Oppenheimer. But despite Oppenheimer's tragic fate. Else refrains from blaming Teller or any government officials. Using a sequence of pictures taken shortly before Oppenheimer's death in 1967. Else simply shows the process by which Oppenheimer withered away. The sequence proves more powerful than any battery of accusations could ever...
...speak Russian well. I was careful, however, to hide any trace of an English accent so as not to be classed as an American and, hence, dangerous alien. I showed him my expired Nebraska driver's license, Omaha Public Library card, Harvard I.D., and my Cool Cash 24-hour teller card to prove my identity. He grunted knowingly upon receiving each one, convinced by the power of the color pictures and strange language that I was a Finn and in Leningrad only to drink. ("Drunk Finns" make the pilgrimage to escape Finnish liquor taxes and dry laws...