By Lily Koppel
As America's Mercury Seven astronauts have been introduced on death-defying missions, tv cameras inquisitive about the courageous smiles in their younger other halves. in a single day, those girls have been remodeled from army spouses into American royalty. they'd tea with Jackie Kennedy, seemed at the hide of Life journal, and fast grew into type icons.
Annie Glenn, together with her picture-perfect marriage, used to be the envy of the opposite other halves; JFK made it transparent that platinum-blonde Rene chippie was once his favourite; and authorized pilot Trudy Cooper arrived with a mystery that had to remain hidden from NASA. including the opposite other halves they shaped the Astronaut other halves membership, delivering each other with help and friendship, espresso and cocktails.
As their big name rose—and as divorce and tragic demise started to contact their lives—they endured to rally jointly, and forming bonds that might face up to the attempt of time, they usually have stayed buddies for over part a century. THE ASTRONAUT better halves membership tells the genuine tale of the ladies who stood beside a few of the largest heroes in American background
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Is he one of the notables? UNKNOWN MAN: CADI: No. you’re in charge of directing his affairs? UNKNOWN MAN: CADI: That’s so. Then he’s an employee. UNKNOWN MAN: CADI: They claim he has. They claim he has a trade but he does not make anything. UNKNOWN MAN: CADI: He makes nothing. No. Has he influence? qxd:Tawfiq_Hakim 52 4/13/08 4:12 PM Page 52 The Sultan’s Dilemma UNKNOWN MAN: Yes, CADI: on his acquaintances. Has he many acquaintances? UNKNOWN MAN: Yes—many. CADI [thinking in silence as he passes his fingers through his beard]: Yes.
WINE MERCHANT forward. qxd:Tawfiq_Hakim 4/13/08 4:12 PM Page 45 Act Two SLAVE TRADER: VIZIER: Silence! Silence! Honorable people! You are today present at a great and unique occa- sion, one of the most important in our history: a glorious Sultan asks for his freedom and has recourse to his people instead of to his sword—that sharp and mighty sword by which he was victorious in battles against the Mongols and with which he could also have been victorious in gaining his freedom and liberating himself from slavery.
Thirty! At a sum of thirty! Thirty thousand dinars! [whispering]: Thirty thousand dinars to be thrown into the sea! What a madman! [shouting at the top of his voice]: Thirty thousand dinars! SLAVE TRADER Thirty! Any better bid? No one? No one bids more than thirty thousand dinars? Is this all I’m offered as a price for our great Sultan? SULTAN VIZIER: [to the VIZIER]: So this is the height of noble, patriotic, appreciation! Your Majesty, those present bidding here are mostly the miserly mer- chants and well-to-do, those whose nature is niggardly, whose one desire is profit, and who begrudge spending money for the sake of a lofty purpose.