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...directing a play in London called Otherwise Engaged, and that, said Actress Vivien Merchant, is just what her husband, Playwright Harold Pinter, 44, has been for the past several months. Last week Merchant, 46, announced that she was divorcing the author of The Homecoming and The Caretaker after 19 years of marriage. The reason: his alleged love affair with Lady Antonia Fraser, 42, bestselling historian (Mary Queen of Scots) and willful social lioness of London. "It seems he is possessed by Lady Antonia," said Merchant. "She has cast a spell over him. How she can do it with six children...
...they harshly blamed Congress for refusing their futile request for last-minute increases in military aid. But the President mounted an impressive operation to remove the refugees without the bloodshed that had been predicted. Then he was handed an opportunity to display his mettle. The Cambodians seized the merchant vessel Mayaguez, and the President responded by sending in the Marines. The ship and its 39 crewmen were rescued at the cost of the lives of 41 U.S. servicemen. The use of force may have been theatrical and excessive, as critics charge. But Ford did give the world a lesson...
...untitled and still unfinished book. The excerpt is about a girlie photo, the man who has carried on a masturbatory affair with that picture since 1957, and the California model who posed for it. Talese found the man, Harold Rubin, now 35 and a Chicago porn merchant, by wandering into his sex shop; he eventually learned of his obsession and finally located the model, Diane Webber, now a Malibu, Calif., housewife and belly-dance instructor. (The two have never met.) He interviewed the pair and their families more than a dozen times, and recounts the sexual histories...
Scarcely three hours after Sadat's convoy sailed through, the first five merchant ships-Kuwaiti, Greek, Chinese, Russian and Yugoslav-moved into the waterway that Sadat has melodramatically described as "a hostage for peace." At the Bitter Lakes, they met the first northbound convoy in eight years-two Iranian destroyers along with cargo ships from Japan, Italy, Pakistan and the Sudan. Israel may suffer economically from the reopening of the Suez since, among other things, it will cut heavily into a profitable overland transfer route, from the Red Sea port of Eilat to Ashkelon, that Israel developed after...
Series of Gestures. The reopening of the canal, after 13 months of debris-clearing and demolition by an international salvage team, was a significant event for the merchant fleets of the world as well as for Egypt, which hopes to reap about $450 million a year in canal tolls. More important, it was only one of a series of diplomatic and political gestures that together marked as auspicious a week for peace as the Middle East has witnessed since the end of the October war. Shortly before the canal reopened, Sadat spent two days in Salzburg, Austria, for his first...