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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington, too, tried to marshal support for the new government, even as the threat of a military coup grew more ominous. Reports from U.S. military attachés described how troops were being reassigned to areas distant from relatives and friends, a step that some analysts viewed as a way to lessen any inhibitions among the soldiers to open fire during a confrontation with anti-Shah protesters. To defuse the coup threat, the Administration dispatched General Robert E. Huyser to Tehran to coax military leaders into supporting Bakhtiar...
Kenneth Lamoreaux grew up on his family's farm in the southwestern Utah town of Paragonah. One day in 1960, at age 15, he was diagnosed as having acute lymphatic leukemia. Ten days later he was dead. A cousin died of leukemia in 1963, another has suffered from thyroid cancer. One common denominator: proximity to more than 80 above-ground atomic-bomb tests held at the nearby Nevada proving grounds from...
...done by Richards on the B side, suffers from a lack of sincerity. As Jagger told Chet Flippo, "It's the attitude." Precisely; that goes for reggae as well as rock. God knows Richards has smoked enough ganja to earn his dreadlocks. But reggae is an indigenous form. Richards grew up in Kent, not Kingston, and his reggae, though technically admirable, is obviously affected. Add to this the suspicion that Richards, who tends to self-pity, is trying to identify his fiasco in Canada with the dilemma of Cliff and other reggae artists...
Orton liked to claim that he grew up in the gutter, but the Saffron Lane Estates, a 1920s-style low-income development in the industrial town of Leicester, were in fact too dreary and anonymous for such a colorful description. His father was a city gardener who had long since given up his manhood; his mother was a tyrant who raged through a house that smelled of grease and damp. Young Joe, the eldest of four, tried acting and found his haven in the fantasy of the theater. At 18, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts...
...beginning Orton sat at Halliwell's feet, content to type his novels. Gradually he began making suggestions, then started collaborating. Finally he struck out on his own, demonstrating a talent for the comic and bizarre that Halliwell could admire but never imitate. As Orton's confidence grew, Halliwell's diminished, leaving, at the end, only the dangerous embers of envy and resentment...