Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happening to me now," says Margaux. She has a boy friend, Hamburger King Errol Wetson, 33, who is "the best." She adds: "I guess it's inevitable that I will get into movies." Perhaps a western, in which "everyone will be women-even the Indians." Margaux's elder sister Joan, 24, is more traditional. Co-author of the 1974 thriller Rosebud, a trendy caper of international kidnaping that has already been made into a movie, she is now working on a gourmet picnic cookbook. But Margaux's fame may soon surpass Joan...
...been made to pay off the debt. Marlon had earlier announced that he was giving back all his property, including his $150,000 house off Mulholland Drive, an apartment complex in Anaheim worth more than $250,000, and his share of the 40-acre Illinois farm on which his elder sister, Mrs. Frances Loving, lives. Mrs. Loving reacted at first with almost Palestinian bitterness: "It will happen over my dead body." Later, she said she had been joking. "I'm completely approving," she said...
Meanwhile, bits of information about his background surfaced. His late father, James Hugh Angleton, was a businessman with foreign connections. During World War II, the elder Angleton became a lieutenant colonel in the OSS. The son went to Yale (class of '41). Fellow Student William Bundy, an ex-CIA man and now editor of Foreign Affairs, recalls Angleton as "a person of great depth in whom one sensed a constant searching." Among other things, Angleton worked on the campus magazine...
...List. Their captive turned out to be Marshall Fields, 25, a college dropout and taxi driver who had been behaving erratically since his father died last May. The elder Marshall Fields, who had been an official of the U.S. Agency for International Development, had served in Arab countries, where the son became fascinated by the Islamic religion. He had been put on the Secret Service list of people to watch because he had sent packets to news agencies threatening some kind of dramatic action on Christmas Day. Some messages were signed in his own name, others "Merry Christmas." Fields...
...basic, pitiless irony is that what he must do is sacrifice the happiness, often the lives, of his family (his wife, his elder brother, old associates). The end finds him stripped of everything he once valued except the one thing he found essential-unquestioned, unquestionable authority. It seems a far more terrible punishment than the bloody retributions the old movie code used to insist on applying to Scarface, Little Caesar and their...