Word: brioni
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widows and orphans in a stock fraud-all without altering his own good opinion of himself. The odd thing is that Author Ruark seems to share that good opinion. "Cash" Price, the coldhearted moneyman, has most of the personal characteristics (villainy aside) of Robert Ruark himself: a fondness for Brioni suits, Peal's boots and Joe Bushkin's piano playing; a distaste for the Stork Club and ladylike male authors. Can such a man be altogether...
...wife of 30 years. His opponent: burly Yugoslav Dictator Tito, a canny pro at the political bob-and-weave. Occasion of the scrap: Tunney's second honeymoon, which the ex-champ, now a capitalist and director of many corporations, wanted to spend on the wooded Adriatic isle of Brioni, location of Tito's many-splendored summer place. "Thirty years ago," said Gene, "my wife and I spent most of our honeymoon on Brioni...
...Tito won't let anyone within 100 miles of the place. I am sore, plenty sore." But soreness, ringsiders agreed, was no match for Balkan bureaucracy: the Tunney holiday would undoubtedly take place far, far from Brioni...
...early July, when it gets searing hot in the Middle East, the man who had forehandedly helped make the place particularly hot went off on a graciously appointed yachting cruise with his family to visit his old friend Tito at the marshal's isle of Brioni in the blue Adriatic. In that way, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, President and founder of the New United Arab Republic, could escape the heat built up by his subversive doings in Lebanon. And he could also pursue his studies at Tito's knee in the perilous and racking business...
...sailed two days in the Adriatic. When he learned about American troop landings in Lebanon and the increase of tension in the area, Nasser returned to Pula, where he met with Tito to discuss the situation. From Pula, Nasser, accompanied by U.A.R. Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, went to Brioni. From Brioni, Fawzi and Nasser flew to Moscow, where Nasser had two meetings with Khrushchev that lasted eight hours. They discussed the international situation and necessary steps to preserve peace...