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...years the old (seventyish) Imam of Yemen has been as absolute a ruler as history records. In his feudal desert country, it took the Imam's personal signature to get a gasoline permit, authorize a $15 printing job, or order light bulbs for the palace. He clung to every trifle of power...
While Cinemactor Peter Lawford pushed ahead with a talent-packed extravaganza aimed at paying off the $2,000,000 deficit of the recent Democratic campaign (TIME, Dec. 19), Peter's mother melodramatically moved to meet her own bills. In Hollywood, Lady Lawford, seventyish, a British subject ("I would have voted for Mr. Nixon"), took a salesgirl's position with a flossy local jeweler. She was to draw $50 a week for expenses, plus 5% on her sales. Her ladyship's friends explained that she is getting along on a $52-a-month British pension, with Lawford helping...
Simon Challoner, the turn-of-the-century hero of Heritage, hopes to inherit the sprawling country manor that his father rules and his childless uncle owns. Papa obligingly dies, but seventyish Uncle Edwin refuses to follow suit. (Death is ardently willed and obsessively discussed in Compton-Burnett novels, usually because it is the survivors' only means to get hold oi the estate.) Instead, Uncle Edwin marries a thirtyish neighbor named Rhoda. Since age has made Uncle Edwin's conjugal privileges meaningless, the marriage is a big surprise but, hereditarily speaking, no calamity. In a moment of passion (passion...
Died. YekaterinaVoroshilov,seventyish, wife of the Soviet Union's 78-year-old Kliment Voroshilov, whose title-Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet-is the paper equivalent of "President"'; in Moscow...
Artistic Disorder. While industry leaders set the fashions in products, fashions in women's grooming are set by a different, more remote breed. U.S. women wait anxiously on the decrees of such men as Antoine, aging (seventyish), wavy-haired dean of U.S. hair stylists, who has turned more heads than a nation of Casanovas. From his headquarters in Paris, Antoine lays down the law for the 48 Antoine salons that are part of Seligman & Latz, the nation's largest beauty chain (292 salons). He is responsible for the page boy, the pompadour, the Italian cut, the tousle...