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Premier Fazlollah Zahedi's purpose in publishing these disastrous totals was to hint at his desire to settle with the British and restart the oil industry, "the main source of income in the Iranian nation." In explosively chauvinistic Iran, such ideas have to be gingerly phrased: "It is impossible to carry on national reforms without a solution of the oil problem . . . This government hopes to take efficient steps toward exploiting this resource...
Dream Time (Martha Lou Harp; Columbia LP). An intriguing vocal that has a hint of Johnnie Ray's edginess and intensity. But the voice is sometimes so concealed in foggy echoes that it might be Garbo singing. With a wispy accompaniment of harp and organ. Songstress Harp runs the gamut from artfully seductive (in Paradise) to reflectively sensuous (in By the Bend of the River...
...cook. They had heard his theories many times before and were bored, but they sat helplessly drowsing into the morning, a captive audience. Only Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress, ever did anything about it. She would pointedly ask the Führer the time. Hitler usually took the hint and closed the window on the refuse-laden backyard of his mind...
...Russia, which can be expected to pay a high diplomatic price to prevent German rearmament on the side of the West. In France, the Russians peddle the line that German arms are no longer necessary because the danger of Soviet attack is "remote and receding." In Germany, its agents hint that the Red army might be withdrawn from the rebellious East Zone in return for a German pledge of "neutrality...
Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe gave a reporter a hint of what Hollywood glamor girls talk about between performances on the set. Sample noted during the shooting of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, in which she is starred with Jane Russell: "Jane, who is deeply religious, tried to convert me to her religion [she is actually nondenominational], and I tried to introduce her to Freud. Neither...