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...Chilean exiles who posed problems for the junta. In September 1974, General Carlos Prats Gonzalez, predecessor as army chief of staff of the tough current junta boss, General Augusto Pinochet Uguarte, was assassinated by a bomb in his car in Buenos Aires. In October 1975, Christian Democratic Leader Bernardo Leighton, who irritated the regime by calling, as Letelier had, for a united opposition against it, was wounded by gunmen in Rome...
Died. Margaret Leighton, 53, twice a Tony Award winner (for Separate Tables, 1956, and The Night of the Iguana, 1962), whose stage and screen career stretched over 35 years and included such successful films as The Winslow Boy and The Go-Between in which the willowy, blonde English actress starred in her usual elegant style; while under treatment for multiple sclerosis; in Chichester, England...
...Gulag Archipelago Firsthand. A one-man show with Yaakov Khantsis, featuring a simultaneous Yiddish translation. In the Leighton Room of Phillips Brooks House, November 20, at 6:45 p.m. Admission free...
...Arthurian fantasy in which 311 workers in a lunar space station are cut off from earth when a giant explosion hurls the moon onto an uncharted trajectory. Led by the intrepid commander, John Koenig, the crew overcomes such obstacles as Gwent, the man turned machine; Arra (played by Margaret Leighton), the queen of the enormous planet Astheria; and the temptress of the heavens, the Guardian of Piri. The special effects far exceed anything on Star Trek. They include fleets of hovering cockroach-shaped spaceships, squads of yellow moon buggies and an array of enticing equipment from whatever passes...
...around them. Topol, who last loped in Fiddler on the Roof, has a sort of toothy ingenuousness that gives Galileo an unfortunate puppy-dog quality. Topol misses the role's strength, both in character and intellect. Most of the actors around him, however, are superb: John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Edward Fox, Patrick Magee, John McEnery...