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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After arrival in Tehran Roosevelt set up headquarters in the basement of the U.S. military mission. He was visited there by General Fazhollah Zahedi, Mossadeq's disaffected Minister of the Interior once described by Soroya, the Shah's second wife, as "half swashbuckler and half Don Juan." Zahedi swashbuckled but was finally compelled to agree with Roosevelt that the prospects for a successful coup were poor. The Shah was depressed and dispirited, incapable of taking any decision, while the armed forces seemed increasingly behind Mossadeq...
...Gerald Ford didn't seem to mind not getting the full red-carpet treatment on his first visit to the Middle East. In Egypt, the former President stayed at the Aswan Oberoi along with another tourist, the Shah of Iran. Ford, accompanied by his wife Betty, also stopped off in Israel. "I came as a private citizen," he said, and hence felt little compunction about beating a hasty retreat from a dinner with Premier Menachem Begin. After all, Private Citizen Ford had a date to watch the Super Bowl via a special satellite hookup...
Norman Mailer's right hand doesn't always know what his famous left is doing. The truculent author of The Armies of the Night appeared in a Barnstable, Mass., courtroom last week to haggle over finances in the divorce proceedings brought against him by his fourth wife, Beverly. Mailer couldn't explain how he had frittered away several hundred thousand dollars. "My talent is to make money, not to manage it," he said. Beverly, who is asking for $1,000 a week alimony, has her own quirks, such as her temper. "We had 26 maids...
Goodness is all in this role, and Roscoe Orman conveys it with naked honesty, especially in a touching scene with his loyal wife Portia (Mary Alice). Gylan Kain's Cassius is less convincing. He possesses the character's guile and envy but not his menace. Morgan Freeman, an actor of intrepid gifts, would have suited the part better, and is somewhat wasted as Casca. While firm in his authority, Sonny Jim Games' Caesar is smugly arrogant rather than imperiously regal...
...19th century, he was tossed about in true 20th century fashion. Born in the Ukraine in 1857, he quickly became a pawn to a larger power. His father, a nobleman and Polish patriot, was convicted of political crimes by the occupying Russian authorities and sent into exile, along with wife and child. In arctic solitude, young Conrad watched his mother and then his father dying slowly of consumption. An orphan at eleven, the boy felt the full force of his father's "exalted and dreamy temperament" and never forgot what it brought: misery, ruin and death. The lesson later...