Word: arieli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boarding ramp of the blue and white Boeing 707 jet inaugurating the transatlantic service of his Olympic Airways. He even bore gifts for the 140 passengers-key rings for the men, Dior perfume and pins for the women. And the next morning, as the jet returned from New York, "Ari" the airman again formed a one-man welcoming committee. "Onassis follows the move ments of his tankers from his yacht and from his home by an occasional telex message," says Olympic Deputy Managing Director Ioannis Georgakis, "but he follows Olympic every day. He is thrilled...
...stock of the Société des Bains de Mer, an Edwardian sprawl of properties that includes the casino, the yacht club, the 60-year-old Hótel de Paris and about one-third of Monaco's 375 acres. Bien, thought Rainier, Ari will also bring in his rich friends, make the roulette wheels spin as they used to before the war-and use the S.B.M.'s reserves to build some nice sandy beaches, which Monaco badly needs in the bikini era. Unfortunately, Onassis disapproves of gambling, prefers to sunbathe on his 325-ft. yacht...
...lawyer, is illegal under the company's charter, which limits individual shareholders to 10,000 apiece. Onassis nominally complies with this by holding most of his stock in the names of 48 Panamanian shipping companies, but Rainier may be able to find a judge who agrees that Ari should be forced by law to sell his shares or give up his voting rights. Then, presumably, the way would be clear for Rainier to set about shaping his princely domain into another St. Tropez-or, who knows, perhaps another Nice...
...most Americans, the thought of European roulette conjures up visions of King Farouk squandering an Egyptian fortune at Deauville, James Bond gallantly winning one for a lissome blonde at Casino Royale, or Princess Grace and Ari Onassis presiding over the glittering wheels of Monte Carlo. Titillating, perhaps, but a trifle dated. The true archetype of European gambling today is the sprawling mustard-yellow casino at sleepy Bad Neuenahr on the Ahr River in West Germany. There, few of the blondes among the intense, studious crowds at the tables last week were under 50 years...
...most fascinating facet of the election was the amazing amount of ticket splitting, as voters chose L.B.J.-and then skipped down the ballot to vote for deserving Republican candidates (see The Senate and The Governors stories). In the end-with the possible exception of salvaging his home state of Ari-zona-all that Goldwater and his devoted band of active amateurs got out of their many months of hard work was the distinction of sufficiently upsetting the voting patterns in the South to carry five states. And he triumphed in those states mostly on the voters' belief that...