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Byrnes, the motorcade passed a line of bleachers that was empty except for one girl staring solemnly at the visitor. But later, when Eisenhower emerged from the governor's office, it became clear why there had been so few people on the streets; they had all gathered around the Statehouse to hear Ike speak. A great crowd-police estimated it at 50,000-packed the Statehouse lawn and the wide streets leading...
...prominent diplomatic visitor once described meeting him at a Moscow dinner: "My most vivid memory is the sight of Malenkov. It was the most sinister thing in the Soviet Union. I was struck by his repulsive appearance, bulbous, flabby and sallow . . . He was apparently oblivious of what was going on around him at the table. When toasts were made, he would lift his glass automatically, then relapse into sneering silence." Said another diplomat: "I would hate to be at the mercy of that...
...Kohen, proprietor of an art and curio shop in Washington, shooed off ordinary customers one day last week. "The place is full of Secret Service men," he explained to one chance telephone caller, the New York Times's Reporter Paul Kennedy. "I've got a very important visitor coming." Thirty minutes later, accompanied by more Secret Service men, the important visitor slipped in the door: the President of the U.S. was hunting a nice picture to give his wife for their home back in Independence...
This principle works just as well in reverse. If a body is moving faster than 26.1 miles per second, it cannot be a permanent member of the solar system. It must be a visitor from space, bound for space again on an "open," one-time orbit...
...privileged students. Such a one was the object of a frantic search several years ago. An Overseer of the University, hearing of this professor's excellent delivery, wanted to pay him a visit. Neither the class nor the professor were in their appointed room, and the would-be visitor was rather put out. Upon contacting the errant professor's department, Kennedy found that he had notified it of his intention to change rooms. Another visit by the Overseer to the new location revealed nothing in the way of class or professor. It was not until several harsh inquiries were made...