Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is no laughing matter. At least, it wasn't meant to be. But consider: a consortium of international dirty dealers, led by Sir John Gielgud, plans to manipulate the gold market by flooding one of South Africa's richest gold mines...
...trouble with plots of this sort is that plotters like Sir John lose all touch with reality. They are so busy hatching refinements of their villainy that they seal themselves off from the daily verities that nourish and sustain the rest of mankind...
...Sir John just taken a break and turned on the TV in his hotel room while the rest of the boys went out for a smoke, he might have seen one of the many reruns of a series called The Saint, starring Roger Moore as an unruffled crimebuster. Then during Gold, when he might have spotted Moore playing the part of a mining engineer, he would have known immediately that all his cunning was for nothing. He could thus have saved us a lot of trouble...
...life--in Weimar Germany, Iceland, and New York--had ended and he was invited back to Oxford. As a long-time expatriate and as a homosexual, Auden could never have been Poet Laureate. Yet, by the end of his life, he would have been as innocuous a choice as Sir John Betjeman...
...acquiring a new Elizabeth-and royalty at that. Burton's latest love is Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, 38, a twice-married mother of three whose second husband is British Banker-Politician Neil Balfour. The romance began just last month while Burton was in London filming a biography of Sir Winston Churchill. "We are going to be married-that's definite," says Burton. "She has been a friend to Elizabeth [Taylor] and me for years. We re-met three weeks ago, and that was it." Besides her parents in Paris, Liz II has other royal connections...