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...fund of sometimes chilling, sometimes ludicrous lore. It reveals that on Nov. 22, 1963, the day John Kennedy was killed in Dallas, a high-ranking CIA officer named Desmond Fitzgerald was meeting in Paris with a Cuban secret agent known as AM/LASH to offer him a poison pen outfitted with a hypodermic needle. As a long-secret CIA report said, "It is likely that at the very moment President Kennedy was shot, a CIA officer was meeting with a Cuban agent and giving him an assassination device for use against Castro...
...related crimes, Ehrlichman spoke in Santa Fe for 90 minutes with TIME'S Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook. Ehrlichman, who lives in a rented 160-year-old adobe house, said he has been putting in two or three hours each morning with pen and paper. He started outlining his novel in March 1974 and completed the manuscript two months ago. He lived on a $50,000 advance from Simon & Schuster...
...told about the doctors' announcement of Franco's setback, Arias apparently rushed to El Pardo Palace to get a signature on a document transferring authority to Juan Carlos. The doctors, however, stopped the Premier from entering the sickroom, warning that "it would kill Franco to take a pen in his hand...
...beauty of the Bela Palanka Gorge in the light of the full moon, as our train bore down upon Nish," wrote Arnold Toynbee, who had been covering the Greco-Turkish war for the Manchester Guardian. Before he went to sleep that night, he took out a fountain pen and jotted down "a list of topics" on half a sheet of paper...
...them. Did the film maker require an outdoor theater for a few atmospheric shots? He hired the 17th century theater at Spoleto for a week and transported the whole cast and crew thither in pursuit of the desired images. Was the script not quite right? Gordy took pen in hand and wrote the line that he says encapsulates Mahogany's philosophical essence: "Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with." Such creativity sent Mahogany $1.25 million over its original $2.5 million budget...