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...traveled the country in his colorful campaign "battlebus." "What chance is there that a new Britain can be built by the old parties," he asked a Scottish audience, "one of whom draws its inspiration from the decaying bones of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery and the other from the widow's weeds of Queen Victoria...
...consists of three hour-long documentaries made for Britain's Thames Television by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, the team responsible for the best overall film history ever made, 1980's 13-part Hollywood. They were given access to Chaplin's film vaults by his widow, and to numberless outtakes from the pictures he made in 1916-17 for the Mutual Film Co., which are now controlled by a silent-film collector-impresario, Raymond Rohauer. From hundreds of hours of this material, the pair has fashioned not only a priceless contribution to film history, but an essay...
Catherine F. Hoopes, the donor's widow, said in an interview yesterday that her husband had left half of his estate--acquired through investment of inherited funds--to Harvard because he enjoyed his college days and respected the University...
...Hassanein Heikal contends that Sadat had a humble-beginnings complex that caused him to live inordinately lavishly. The author says that Sadat popped a couple of vodkas daily despite his Islamic faith's liquor prohibition. The Egyptian government last month banned import of the book. Anwar's widow Jehan Sadat, 49, has not commented publicly on Heikal's charges, but she will provide a portrait of her husband in her own just finished memoir...
...Indian movies: domineering mother vs. misunderstood daughter-in-law. Now the country is going to be treated to a live, political version of the drama as Maneka Gandhi, 26, takes on her illustrious mother-in-law, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Last week the sharp-tongued Maneka, who is the widow of Indira's youngest son and one time heir apparent, Sanjay, announced that she will launch her own political party. What is more, she will oppose Rajiv, Indira's eldest son and current heir apparent, in the next elections for the north Indian parliamentary seat of Amethi...