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...were it not for Simone Signoret's 100-proof performance as the kind of woman who gets into a man's blood. She drinks too much, gambles too much, talks too much. But she is a heady dish all the same. When the schoolteacher (winningly played by Alexandra Stewart) comes to dinner, the wife purrs: "Who shares your bed? I hope you're not still a virgin at 20." A few more remarks like that and her husband has had enough of her unpredictable bitchery. "What are you trying to do?" he asks. "Ruin your evening...
...spying. It was the second time the two countries have swapped prisoners in this fashion. The first: Communist Agent Rudolf Abel was traded for U-2 Pilot Gary Powers in 1962. In last week's exchange the U.S. released Ivan Egorov, a Soviet U.N. functionary, and his wife Alexandra, who were arrested last July in New York for espionage. In return, the Soviets let go 24-year-old Fulbright Scholar Marvin Makinen, who was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1961 on photo-taking espionage charges; and Jesuit Priest Walter Ciszek, 58, who had been arrested in Poland...
...countess who was born in a 19-room mansion. But now, as a U.S. citizen, she calls herself "Miss" and lives on a New York farm. For 24 years, Alexandra Tolstoy, 79, only living child of Russia's great novelist, has devoted her time to the care of anti-Communist refugees-and at her Tolstoy Foundation Center, near Nyack, is a group of Staroobriadtsi (Old Believers), survivors of a splinter sect of the Russian Orthodox Church whose members fled to Turkey from their homeland nearly 300 years ago. Miss Tolstoy enlisted the U.S. Government's aid in order...
...year started a concerted campaign against the Karamanlis regime, and against the royal family-notably Queen Frederika, who was accused of Nazi connections. Bertrand Russell's ban-the-bombers joined the fray, and last April, when Frederika was in London for the wedding of her third cousin Princess Alexandra, she was set upon by a crowd of demonstrators and forced to seek refuge in a private house. Britain's anti-Greek chorus was swelled by Lord Beaverbrook, who, for reasons of his own, scurrilously attacked her in his newspapers for her German background...
Married. Princess Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel, 26, twelfth in the line of succession to the British throne; and Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 34, commoner second son of the twelfth Earl of Airlie; in Westminster Abbey, London (see THE WORLD...