Word: bel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disbanded First Parachute Regiment joined the generals' putsch against Charles de Gaulle. After De Gaulle accorded Algeria its independence in 1962, the legionnaires disinterred their most illustrious dead from their desert graves and transported their pink Saharan granite Monument aux Morts from 118-year-old headquarters in Sidi bel-Abbés in Algeria to metropolitan France, together with their battle-worn flags, standards, regimental colors and a multitude of medals and decorations. These tokens of the legion's past now repose at its new headquarters at Aubagne, ten miles east of Marseilles...
...year and a half ago, they bought a $450,000 Spanish mansion in Bel Air, on a hill overlooking Los Angeles and the sea. They do most of their business traveling together and, as if they had just been married, sit down to champagne and dinner of whatever cheese, fruit and nuts are in the fridge...
...Tiegs practices her ground strokes in Bel Air and considers which pile of money to pick up, others are calculating in Manhattan. The natural look, with its painted-on vitamins, its hair falling down and its clothes falling off, seems good for another year or two, but it will not last forever. Eileen Ford thinks that it will be replaced by a more delicate, refined, romantic illusion, and she wonders when she should start signing up delicate, fine-boned young women...
...price per picture for films in which he only acts has just doubled?to $2 million?but he is already rich from percentage deals on older films. The once famous womanizer has been settled down with Sally Field for over a year, and having finally braved the Bel-Air party circuit on Dinah's arm, he now shuns it. The wall-to-wall mirror on his bedroom ceiling nowadays often reflects a man reading poetry (Eliot and Frost, among others) and sipping a Tab. He is also a serious, intelligent student of film?old, exotic and by competitors. He will...
...also a proficient golfer, as he whittled his handicap down to two. In 1940 he was a sectional qualifier for the U.S. Open and in 1950 he qualified to play in the British Amateur at St. Andrews. Playing before a huge gallery Crosby, whose home course then was the Bel-Air Country Club, began his first match in the Amateur by scoring threes on the first pair of holes...