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Within minutes after the British made the offer, the Iranian delegation left the meeting room, phoned frail, ailing Premier Mohammed Mossadeq. Thirty minutes later, Britain's chief negotiator, Basil Jackson, looking pale and strained, walked out of the conference room and said to waiting newsmen: "Well, talks are broken off, gentlemen. They refused to accept our suggestions under any circumstances...
Peyote is the fruit of the mescal cactus (Lophophora williamsii), which grows abundantly in Mexico and in parts of Texas. Dried, the fruits look like buttons of half-dollar size, brown with a pale center. For 15 years the peyote habit has spread. Alarmed as early as 1940, the Navajo Tribal Council outlawed peyote, but the ban could not be enforced. The peyote button had been adopted as a Communion host by the Native American Church, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, wary of a "religious freedom" issue, refused to interfere...
Unlike Sunset Boulevard, its pale counterpart stirs no emotion and avoids any commentary on the manners & morals of Hollywood, past or present. But it courts some unanticipated resentment and unwitting pathos in the exploitation of the faded oldtimers whom it uses as trophy-like props to dress up a few brief scenes...
...three accused, pale-faced and trembling, knelt. "Kill them!" shouted the crowd. A second later, the shots rang...
...classic Nazi-Fascist pattern, his regime is different in one other major respect. The handsome, strapping six-footer, whose athletic figure now sags just a bit with the weight of middle age (55), does not govern alone. Beside him rules his glittering wife Evita, a 5 ft. 2, pale-skinned, dark-eyed, dazzling blonde of 32. Their man & wife dictatorship has few precedents. Some have compared it with the dual reign of Spain's Ferdinand & Isabella. Perhaps a closer parallel in history was established by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian, who married Theodora, onetime actress and reputedly the most...