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In his 77th year, Fonda has published his autobiography (with Howard Teichmann as his Boswell). Though disabled by serious heart disease, he still hopes to appear on Broadway next year as F.D.R.'s confidant Harry Hopkins. In her 75th year, Hepburn is magnetizing the attention of Philadelphia theatergoers in The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Who Get It Right | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

Egyptian police launched the roundup with late-night calls on leading political dissidents and religious militants. Mohammed Heikal, author, journalist and confidant of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, was roused at 3 a.m. at his summer villa in Alexandria and escorted -"gently," said an aide-to Cairo's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: Cracking Down | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

DIED. David Noyes, 83, Chicago journalist and businessman who for 30 years was a counselor to Harry Truman; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Noyes went to Washington to help organize the War Production Board under Franklin Roosevelt, served as an assistant to Truman at the White House until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 24, 1981 | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

THIS IS A very long movie, and it has that odd, wistful note of so many foreign films. As Katerina's flashes of girlishness become more precious, more subdued, and more rare, one slowly feels the complexity of maturity with all it's dreadful compromises. It is not until the...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Filmpolitik | 8/11/1981 | See Source »

Says a civilian confidant of high military officials: "The road the generals have chosen is very long and very dangerous. They are afraid of the consequences facing them. We all fell into the simplicity of doing away with subversion at any cost, and now we are paying the price." The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Living with Ghosts | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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