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...dialogue especially scintillating. Omar Sharif reads aloud a newspaper headline: "The Czar's in prison, Lenin's in Moscow, civil war has broken out!" Ralph Richardson, on learning that the police have been knocking at his door, exclaims: "Oh no! Not another purge...
...increasingly shaped and controlled by the White House, the Budget Director is one of Washington's most powerful men. He is the President's man, the only high official not confirmed by the Senate. Tennessee Senator Albert Gore charges that the Budget Bureau operates like "a czar or dictator," and Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough says: "It's really dangerous-it's not safe for the country." But Congress can hardly fault the bureau for being profligate when it comes to its own staff. Budget Director Schultze, a former University of Maryland economist, has as his official...
...Zionist movement finally saw daylight last week. CBS Board Chairman William Paley announced plans to convert the site of the defunct Stork Club (TIME, Oct. 15) into a lot-size (42 ft. by 100 ft.) public park as a memorial to his father, Cigar Czar Samuel Paley, who died in 1963. The $1,000,000 plaza, which is to be completed this summer, will be New York's first midtown "waistcoat" park, and the first privately endowed public park in the city. Designed by Zion, it will feature a canopy of 24 intertwined locust trees, individual chairs...
...have to fight the battle of Verdon. René quit because Mrs. Mary Kaltman, the new White House "food coordinator," insisted on budget-paring barbarities such as frozen vegetables. Though Haller's main job will be to cook for official dinners and luncheons, he is an accomplished cuisine czar in his own right and will also supervise Mrs. Kaltman's "central storage service," which supplies all three White House kitchens...
...great-granddaughter of the Ford who founded the family fortune, to Stavros Niarchos, 56, the Greek shipping magnate. Niarchos is the sort of man whom old Henry Ford would probably never have met in his day and would not have understood if he had. About all the Detroit car czar would have respected him for is the fact that he is one of the few men in the world who could not be accused of marrying Charlotte for her money. Niarchos' wealth is hard to pin down in numbers, but it is more than $200 million...