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...show is taped, knew that the understated declaration had startled the world. With four aides, they skipped off in high spirits to Perino's, a fashionable Los Angeles restaurant, where Nixon gleefully shook hands with bystanders on the sidewalk and his party celebrated inside with a $40 bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild (1961) during dinner. Happy, too, was Kissinger; at the height of a brilliant career, he enjoys a global spotlight and an influence that most professors only read about in their libraries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Nixon's Coup: To Peking for Peace | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

...case in point is Henriette-Lucy Dillon, the Marquise de La Tour du Pin. On the first Bastille Day, this remarkable noblewoman was 19 and an apprentice lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette. Her husband was son of the Minister for War. She had grown up in a summer chateau that numbered 25 guest rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Lady | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

When Mary Tapie de Celeyran, the Comtesse Attems, was hard up for cash to repair the family's Chateau du Bosc and wished to sell ten family portraits by her famous uncle, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, she did not offer them to the public at an auction house or a public art gallery. Instead, through an intermediary, she got in touch with Private Dealer Charles Slatkin in New York, who bought all ten and eventually sold them to one of the U.S.'s shrewdest collectors. Not untypically in this secretive trade, the collector insists on remaining anonymous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: By Appointment Only | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

...number of visitors increased, so did the innovations. A vivarium housing a host of giant spiders and a reptile collection (starring an 80-year-old alligator) was built in the vaulted chateau cellars; a special baby animal zoo usurped one corner of the grounds; 280 monkeys, brought all the way from Southeast Asia, were set loose and swinging in the 15 acres of beech, oak and hickory trees. Parking facilities were established, as well as a restaurant, picnic area, gas station and that necessary adjunct to the tourist trade, a photo and souvenir shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Chateau Menagerie | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...plans to study the behavior of the birds and beasts on the plush grounds of the château. "In nature," Paul explains, "the animals vanish before you can really watch them, and in zoos they are so traumatized that their behavior is never authentic. But here at the Chateau de Thoiry, we have particularly favorable conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Chateau Menagerie | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

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