1. He was only weeks away from his 80th birthday and looked a bit frail--until he began to speak. Then, though he spoke in Russian, he electrified the audience. At one point, they even applauded his description of lab equipment. He had been in the U.S. only once before, six years earlier, when he was robbed of a large amount of money while boarding a train in New York City.

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