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...touching study of altar nerves ("She's going to expect a lot. She's a widow"). The hardened bachelor (Jack Warden), young but not so young as he used to be, is also pathetic. "Home?" he laughs. "What do I wanna go home fuh? I awready read alia papuhs." But nobody is fooled. And this is what Paddy Chayefsky truly understands and poignantly expresses: that loneliness is really a kind of childishness, and that life is really not worth living without love...
...whose Attorney General he had been. Undoubtedly, Justice Moody's views reflected to some extent the indignation of the intellectuals of that day with the invocation of the amendment by corporation officials in antitrust and rebate cases. The opinion continually belittles the sanctity of the privilege, observing inter alia, "It has no place in the jurisprudence of civilized and free countries outside the domain of the common...
...shop around for a likelier woman (under Moslem law, the King is entitled to four wives at the same time). Three weeks ago in Cairo, while Queen Fatima waited in a village 115 miles away, Idris married the bride that his Premier had picked for him: black-eyed Alia Abdel Kader Lamloum, a ripened Bedouin heiress of 37. Soon after the ceremony, firmly escorted by Fatima, the aged King departed for home, leaving his new Queen behind...
This week, to the roaring welcome of a 21-gun salute in Tripoli harbor, new Queen Alia will arrive in Libya to take her rightful place at Idris' side. The King's own family have blessed the marriage, and at this point, the word was that even Fatima feels much better about everything: she is pregnant again...
During the course of these amenities, a romance flowered between young Sultan and dark-eyed Alia El Solh, eldest of El Solh's daughters. But disillusionment set in. Alia, a Western-educated 22-year-old, learned to her chagrin that Sultan already had at least one other wife, two sons and four daughters. Sultan hired a private eye and discovered that his bride-to-be was a feminist agitator with a firm determination not to hide herself behind a veil and live in a harem. One month after old Ibn Saud went to his grave, the marriage plans were...