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Show our people. Talk about what techniques you have. " I n the Purple Palace "I'd be delighted, " shot back Nelson-Rees, "if you promise I can get back out of the country. " The Russian laughed loudly. Nelson-Rees j oined him. Suddenly it was one big happy meeting. Nelson-Rees j ostled and j oked further with Zhdanov. With some of the other Soviet delegates, he discussed opera and ballet, in cluding the work of Rudolf Nureyev, a Soviet defector. If a few of the American bureaucrats were still sore about Nelson-Rees's independence in the handling of the Rus sian cultures - and miffed anew at his accepting this in vitation to Moscow without consultation - they didn't let on.
The bladder area was the worst, covered by a solid mass of cancerous tissue. "Blad der pushed to anterior abdominal wall, " wrote the pa thologist, "Almost entirely replaced with tumor. " Mary's eyes wandered down toward the corpse's feet and suddenly she was overcome. The toes . They were painted with bright red nail polish, and a dainty j ob it was . It suddenly made this carved-up cadaver real . All the laboratory experimentation had never hinted at the trag edy of this disease. But here, she thought, over here on the table is the proper demonstration.
There was, however, a joke about the status of proj ects such as the Oakland lab, proj ects that were funded by the institute but were not conducted by institute personnel as part of the in-house program. They were called the outhouse programs. Nelson-Rees used to re peat the j oke goodnaturedly, though he did feel a distance between himself and the project leaders . There was no doubt that they knew who he was and appre ciated his work, but in many ways he was still an A u slan dsdeu tsch er.