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Tukhachevsky's armies during the Civil War, rose to be chief of staff of the Red army, a candidate member of the Central Committee and, after Tukhachevsky's arrest, vice commissar of defense. One of Stalin's drinking companions, he too disappeared without trace...
Generations of Intrigue. To young King Hussein the complex intrigues of Araby are as familiar as baseball statistics to a U.S. teenager. He is a member of the proud and once mighty Hashemite clan, which held sway over holy Mecca for 38 generations and trace their ancestry to the Prophet's great-grandfather. Ever since the austere warriors of Ibn Saud stormed out of Arabia's deserts in 1919 and drove them into exile, the Hashemites have found intrigue a matter of simple survival amidst ambitious rivals...
Stored Sunlight. Scientists have long known that sunlight striking the atmosphere 60 miles above the earth breaks two-atom oxygen molecules (62) into single oxygen atoms. Normally the single atoms recombine when they come into contact with nitric oxide as a catalyst. Since there is only a tiny trace of this gas in the high atmosphere, they recombine slowly, releasing enough energy in the process to produce a hardly perceptible glow in the night...
Clifton Webb sheds every trace of his Mr. Belvedere mannerisms to give a terse performance as Montagu, the intelligence officer who has more trouble selling his own high command than he does in hoodwinking the Germans. His toughest job is finding a proper body: that of a man of military age who has just died of pneumonia-so there will be enough fluid in the lungs to fool a Spanish prosector into believing the man has drowned. So long as the film remains a documentary, its detail is fascinating, whether it is the slow building of a personality and past...
...squat white stone houses, and finally with its people, who teach him a language of the heart that is puzzlingly Greek to him. Biggest puzzle of all is his Venus de Miloesque wife Iris, who plunges into the thankless chore of running a local clinic without an outward trace of pity for the poverty and peasant ignorance of her fellow islanders. What she is trying to smother in work, Patrick belatedly discovers, is a long-smoldering love interest in the humbly born manager of the family estate, who happens to be dying of cancer...