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...touching indeed. But he should not have allowed Antonio to misaccentuate "unhospitable" (Shakespeare's only use of the word), nor told him to substitute "hazard myself" for "expose myself." Similarly, he has permitted Sir Toby to stress the second syllable of "exquisite" and bidden him change "Sophy" to "Shah of Persia." Let's leave Shakespeare's text alone. When you start tinkering with obscure terms, where do you stop? The audience does not want to have gratings thrust upon...
...year-old Simon acquired a reputation for candor, accessibility to the press and to Congress, and a fierce independence. He has clashed publicly with other top Administration officials, and even found himself at odds with the President last winter when Simon ridiculed some energy-crisis observations by the Shah of Iran, whom Nixon immediately defended. A demon on the telephone, Simon sometimes makes more than 100 calls in a single evening. At a champagne party in his honor last week, his FEO staff presented him with a toy telephone...
...remedy the situation, Sylvester in 1973 purchased a ten-year-old United Air Lines jet for $750,000 and hired an experienced flight crew of 16. For an additional $750,000, he then ripped out Starship's seats and furnished it fit for a shah...
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Shahs, inheritor of Persia 's ancient throne, recently was interviewed by Time Inc.'s Editor in Chief Medley Donovan and Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart. Their meeting took place over tea in his enormous second-floor office, a cruciform chamber in green and silver, in the Niavaran Palace, the royal residence in Teheran. The highly active 54-year-old monarch sighed frequently as he talked, his voice sometimes dropping to a whisper, as though betraying the burden he feels as the absolute ruler of Iran's 34 million people. For more...
...merely "a tax loophole," he said. Even the family's objets d'art were not exempt from S.L.A. attention: among other things, Hearst owned "24 Greek vases valued at $10,000 each" plus "a collection of Oriental rugs given to him by his personal friend the Shah of Iran." The kidnapers' assertions were apparently based on various published estimates of the Hearst empire's assets...