Word: armande
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that killed one of the world's most dashing multimillionaires and the father of her son. Her second union, to a Governor of Mississippi named Davis Davis, proved a three-month debacle. Her honeymoon with Castleton has been acceptable; now she anxiously awaits the arrival of her older brother Armand, who is bringing her delicate little boy back from France to live with his newest stepfather...
...hired Paul Prudhomme, the famed Cajun chef at the New Orleans restaurant K- Paul's, to prepare 29 dishes for 500 to 700 guests. The National Gallery ordered regional American dishes from Design Cuisine, a Washington caterer, to mark its exhibition of American paintings lent for the Inauguration by Armand Hammer, the millionaire industrialist. Some 250 guests were expected to sample Wisconsin veal, Puget Sound salmon, New England cranberries and beaten biscuits...
...meeting in Los Angeles two weeks ago, Occidental Chairman Armand Hammer, 86, and Diamond Shamrock Chairman William Bricker, 52, were discussing Bricker's plans to take over a third oil firm when they began exploring a merger of their companies. As a team of more than 100 investment bankers and advisers labored through the weekend to work out the details, an arrangement took shape in which stockholders in the two firms would trade their shares one for one for stock in a new holding company. Under the terms, according to sources at Occidental, Diamond Shamrock would have become a wholly...
...against intercontinental ballistic missiles seemed to be emerging as one of the most contentious issues in both capitals. Chernenko mentioned "nonmilitarization of outer space" first in his list of topics to be negotiated, followed by a "reduction of strategic nuclear arms and medium-range nuclear weapons." (He invited Industrialist Armand Hammer, 86, a longtime friend of Soviet leaders, to Moscow as an unofficial pre-Geneva go-between, and Hammer readily accepted...
...both fun and profit, Armand Hammer, 86, diversified his legendary business acumen into Arabian horses five years ago. The two top stallions of his 94-horse stable are the U.S.S.R.'s Pesniar and Poland's El Paso, both plucked from behind the Iron Curtain with the Occidental Petroleum chairman's patented blend of bucks and brass. Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski at first refused to sell El Paso, which he called "a national treasure," but a million dollars from Hammer helped change the Premier's mind. Hammer was in Florida last week for a show...