Word: lyons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening he dreamed that he was reading the screenplay; overnight, Nabokov came to the age of consent. An offer of $150,000 did not exactly dissuade him, and he agreed to do the script himself. James Mason was cast as obsessive old Humbert Humbert, with Sue Lyon, then 14, in the title role of the stepdaughter who seduced him. Everybody said the adaptation could not be done, and they were right. But the pallid, bowdlerized film did gross about 21 times its $1,900,000 cost...
...members in Nice and Geneva. Since 1965 the smugglers had slipped an estimated $500 million a year in heroin into the U.S. by secreting the white powder in washrooms of U.S.-bound jets, in banana crates, in imported autos, and sometimes in sealed cans labeled as fish. Meanwhile, in Lyon, French police arrested two American smugglers and seized the small plane in which they intended to fly drugs to the U.S. In Mexico, police gave President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz some good news to take to President Nixon. When the two men sat down to talk at Coronado, Calif...
Herbert S. Kassman Waldo B. Lyon...
...MARTHA LYON...