Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soria, were Zhivago's Ural settings. MGM, which financed the film, had all but given Lean a blank check. As a result, costume details, down to wool petticoats, were authentic and logistics were superb. Marveled Sir Ralph Richardson, "This is what it must have been like traveling with Napoleon...
...second auspicious event of the week for Montecatini. Earlier, autocratic, meticulous President Carlo Faina, 71, who is descended from the Bonapartes, returned from a trip to Moscow with more to show than Ancestor Napoleon had ever brought away. Montecatini, announced Faina, will build six chemical plants for the Russians under a $110 million contract, will also exchange raw materials (including Russian oil) and finished products with them, and has worked out a technical-assistance agreement that will net more millions. The agreement is the largest that any Italian company has ever made with the Soviets...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Virtue Affair." Illya and Napoleon deal with a fanatic in France who is trying to perfect an insecticide bomb that would ruin wine. Color...
Mistresses & Malaria. The legend goes like this. Alexander, never very stable, was haunted by the memory of his murdered father, Paul I, and half-crazed by a sense of guilt for Napoleon's burning of Moscow. A handsome rakehell, Alexander had latterly fallen under the influence of Baroness Barbara Juliana von Kriüdener, a Baltic Billy Sunday who converted the Czar into a rabid religious mystic. Thus in 1825 he decided to change his life...
...Fyodor Kuzmich's peasant compatriots, there could be no doubt that he was the Czar. He awed them with his humble beekeeping and mysterious tales of life in the czarist court. "When Napoleon was marching on Moscow," Kuzmich would relate, "the Czar went to pray at the casket of St. Serge of Radonezh. The cathedral was dark, and he was alone. Suddenly he heard a voice: 'Go, Alexander, and trust your general.' " And so Russia won its first patriotic...