He made, instantaneously, distinctions in his dealings with people who wanted to question him. Those who accosted him simply to adore—and there were many of these—got the friendly handshake, nothing more. Granted, it “feels good,” as one woman told a reporter who was following the candidate, “to ...
Viktor Kapitsa turned to Tamara—they occupied the rearmost seats and no one, in the half-empty airplane, was occupying the seats across the aisle from them—and winked. She returned the wink, lowered her head slightly, and smiled. She wore her hair in a bun, but it flowed back loosely over the sid...
Such were their instructions from Nikolai, and they were not hard to implement—there was always a shortage of night workers to sort the mail. If when the cards were drawn to single out the assassin the jack of spades was dealt to either of the two, it would be as simple as that he/she, the design...
His Foreign Minister was seated next to him. They drove through St. James’s Park toward the Palace. He made an idle observation about the weather (it was sunny and warm, and Dahl Breckenridge observed that it was sunny and warm) concerning which the PM took no notice. Anthony Brogan knew that the...
(“I said one sausage, Emily, one-one-one-one sausage,” she had exploded almost two years ago. “Do I have to pass a royal decree to make that clear? I know my larder is full enough to provide me with six sausages, and I know I am a constitutional monarch with very limited powers, but I should have...
You’d think the President of the United States, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Adviser to the President—did I forget anybody? Caroline didn’t drift in on this meeting—oh yes, the ...
He was nearly eighteen, he reminded himself, and not inexperienced in the vicissitudes of life. He had learned early that life could be sharp and arbitrary. There had been the shock of his grandfather’s death when he was fourteen; then the loss of his great-aunt to the convent; then the wrenching...
The announcement on Saturday that Wintergrin would hold a full-scale press conference in Bonn on Tuesday at eleven created a rendezvous on the international calendar. All Monday the television crews were at work. Finally Kurt Grossmann announced that facilities would need to be pooled and a drawi...
Alex Herrendon and Harry Bontecou worked every day, Alex working out his passion to put his finger on what he thought the great question raised by the twentieth century: the capacity of totalitarian movements to capture the loyalty not only of multitudes of people, but of intellectuals. And Harry...