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...Built originally as a Spanish fort, it was long the official residence of Mexico's Emperor Maximilian and later of the Republic's Presidents before being converted, in 1944, into a historical museum...
...found dead. Police report suicide, Mason suspects murder. Suspicion leads down a corpse-strewn trail of betrayal that ends at the hero's own door. The dead man has been betrayed by his wife (Simone Signoret), a Russian agent. The wife in turn is betrayed by the spymaster (Maximilian Schell) who employs her. The spymaster then betrays the hero, a longtime friend, by seducing his sex-starved wife (Harriet Andersson). But the hero, in the last analysis, perpetrates the ultimate betrayal: he is false to himself...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Five Finger Exercise (1962), the film version of Peter Shaffer's play, starring Rosalind Russell, Jack Hawkins and Maximilian Schell...
...Answers: 1) Philip II was wed to Maria of Portugal, Mary I of England, Elizabeth of Valois and Anna, daughter of Emperor Maximilian II; 2) Philip V could not abide Escorial's royal vault, was buried at his request at La Granja; 3) Isabel was so rewarded because she had been a reigning queen...
Founded in 1551, Mexico's National University is one of the Western Hemisphere's oldest-and probably its most troublesome. It has been closed by strikes and riots more times than some of its students can count. Emperor Maximilian, in fact, abolished it entirely in 1865, and not until 1910 was it revived. Since then, while some students have gone on to become internationally recognized architects, physicians and teachers, others have majored in mayhem, cutting classes, tossing out professors and spouting left-wing propaganda...