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...manicured fingernails. He is a millionaire by inheritance, married into one of Iran's greatest landowning families, and lives like a prince (which he is) in a palace on the slopes overlooking Teheran. Padding about in a silk dressing gown or British tweeds amidst his huge flower gardens, Olympic-sized swimming pool, stables and servants, Alam seems wildly unlikely as the administrator of revolutionary social reforms aimed at liberating the masses from centuries of feudalism. He is not even sure that he likes the job. "I am lazy by birth," he admits cheerfully. "As Premier I have to work...
Political Blood. To his father's regret, young Alec Home lost interest in fox hunting after falling off a walking horse the first time he rode to hounds. Home still follows his other boyhood pursuits: bird watching, butterfly collecting, flower arranging, piano playing. Macmillan occasionally visits the Homes for the grouse shooting, and, friends say, was about to tip the gillie ?2 one day, when the thrifty Earl advised him sharply: "Half as much will...
...will be a "wilderness of concrete and asphalt," said another girl. "The different levels of sidewalk look like a miniature golf course," declared a third. "We like flowers," said one little girl, who added that the flower areas should not be formal but rather "like the Secret Garden" in Radcliffe Yard...
Died. Leslie Abraham Hyam, 62, president since 1953 of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, a London-born patrician who helped found the art auction house in 1937, taking as his fields Chinese jade, French furniture and English flower painting; of a heart attack; in Canaan, Conn...
...campus. He cannot even say that "Karl Marx was the most important man of the century" without being sacked. (He should have been fired for puerility, not subversion.) This humanist hails from New England, but his behavior is strictly late Roman. He weeps a lot, likes to fiddle with flower arrangements, takes barbiturates, has a penchant for sharing his quarters with other delicate young men. Occasionally he reproaches himself in lush metaphor. "You talk like a gelded pedagogue who has never felt the blood of manhood throbbing like red Chianti in his veins...