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Last week Tenor Lanza, a onetime street-gang wiseguy who never did a day's work until he was 21, was working hard for his money. In a sweltering rubber suit, he puffed along California roads or sparred with his bodyguard-trainer, trying valiantly to sweat off the excess poundage that was costing an exasperated M-G-M many thousands of dollars for an eleven-day delay in the start of his next picture, Because You're Mine. For the moment, Lanza looked more like Mike Di Salle than Lieut. Pinkerton or any other operatic dream prince. Just...
...shrine to honor the Prophet and the memory of his own father, Hussein, onetime Sherif of Mecca (Custodian of the Holy Places) and King of the Hejaz, whose bones lie buried there. Abdullah, right hand relaxed on the hilt of his ceremonial dagger, * walked easily, far ahead of his bodyguard. Talking animatedly with his companions, including his grandson, 15-year-old Emir Hussein, the King went up the steps to the entrance of the nearby Aqsa Mosque, slipped off his shoes, prepared to join 4,000 other Moslems at prayer. At that point a young man in Western clothes stepped...
...panicky rush. The accomplices, including a young boy who had been standing by with a reserve clip of ammunition, managed to get away. The murderer, according to one report, placed the gun to his right temple and shot himself; according to another version, it was the King's bodyguard who felled him where he stood...
...nationalistic Fadayan Islam had threatened to kill him because his government had jailed Fadayan terrorists. Mossadeq reported that he has taken to carrying a revolver. "I have strength and ability to shoot my killer," he said. "What God has decided for me will be accomplished. Therefore I need no bodyguard...
...with stevedores and watchmen, are still controlled by the U.O.E.F. When the U.O.E.F. blacklisted the pay office, Gispert took the case to court, won it early last month. In the meantime he had been threatened, his home had been broken into, he had been beaten up, and his personal bodyguard had been murdered. One day last week, while he was walking up the narrow staircase to his office, Gispert was waylaid and shot through the heart...