Word: baron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small, private twin-engine Beechcraft Baron, more susceptible to wind conditions than the big airliners, landed on the same strip without difficulty...
Making Movies. When paroled, though, King headed home to Cleveland, where he had reigned as numbers baron. "Most people would rather deposit with me than the Federal Reserve," he says of his days in the policy game. Not long after his return to Cleveland, he helped promote a charity boxing exhibition, and was soon putting together rights of his own. King's first big-time bout as promoter was Foreman's championship defense against Ken Norton in Caracas in March 1974. Even before that fight took place, King was busy bidding for and eventually tying up the Foreman...
...Baron Arnaud de Rosnay is no run-of-the-disco jet-setter. The dashing entrepreneur already has behind him careers as France's national surfboard champion, a photojournalist, a publicist and a backgammon promoter. Now, like a man who contemplates an ocean and invents the squirt gun, De Rosnay has come up with a parlor game based on the energy crisis...
...Nicky. She is a billionette (looks like a billion), an heir to the fortune of her grandfather Antenor Patiño, the Bolivian tin king. She resembles a sleek, lacquered Andean Indian. Despite her wealth, Isabel is not idle. She does freelance public relations work, and helps her husband Baron Arnaud de Rosnay, 29, known as the Baroncito, promote backgammon in Europe. Recently, the Rosnays spent some time in the Middle East. Arnaud has devised an oil game, Monopoly style, called Petropolis ($790 for silver-plated derricks and gold-plated platforms in a green morocco case). Isabel fell in love...
...find he was facing a gun. Their access secured, five other terrorists, one a woman, entered the building. Armed with submachine guns, they raced to the top floors and barricaded themselves, along with twelve hostages, including Ambassador Dietrich Stoecker, 59, and his military attaché, Lieut. Colonel Andreas Baron von Mirbach...