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Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who charmed Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi during a visit to Washington, D.C. (TIME, May 17), proved a little less enchanting to the ambassador's countrymen. Invited on Iran Air's inaugural nonstop flight from New York to Tehran, Taylor came playing the role of temperamental tourist. On arrival she sent Tehran police in search of a missing hand-carried package. Rumored to be a jewelry box, it turned out to be some Glenfiddich pure malt scotch. Then came a minor row at her hotel when she found her accommodations were not the royal suite...
...super-porker, and the Tattooed Lady, who is costumed as the world's only sexy rhino. Melody pours from a marvel designed by one Nick O'Lodeon, which features 29 instruments. A belly dancer gyrates, jugglers toss balls, and minstrels stroll. On the next level is a nonstop vaudeville show and a sparkling crystal carousel filled with dolphins, Pegasi, centaurs, griffins and a 3,500-lb. whale...
...Hollywood's RKO. Buying it in 1948, he soon became the only individual to own a major U.S. film studio. He would summon associates to midnight meetings in obscure hotels and sometimes hole up for weeks in a studio screening room, subsisting on cookies and milk while watching nonstop reruns of old flicks. The studio had few postwar hits; its executives revolted; and in disgust Hughes sold RKO in 1954 for a small profit to the General Tire and Rubber...
...frenetic pace a bit. He certainly does not need his income from residuals. At the end of its 26-week run, MHII will go on vacation for 13 weeks before returning for a full 39-week season in the fall. Though the break goes against soap opera's nonstop tradition, Lear says simply that "we need rest time...
Ever since Rolf Hochhuth's bitter drama The Deputy first appeared on the stage in 1963, there has been a nonstop debate over the explosive question raised by the German playwright: Could Pope Pius XII have done more to save six million European Jews from extermination during World War II? Six books have explored the thesis that by remaining silent he became an accomplice to genocide. The issue was even aired for almost two years in a Rome civil court, when American Author Robert Katz was accused of defaming the Pontiffs memory in Massacre in Rome, a 1973 film...