Word: crillon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most productive stake-out of all has proved to be the bar and grill of the Hotel Crillon, next door to the American embassy. Harriman dines there regularly, and most members of the U.S. delegation can be found at the bar sooner or later. One reason stories are scarce, and off-the-record chats with the diplomats are hard to come by is the problem of electronic surveillance. At the Majestic, quipped one U.S. diplomat, "there must be so many bugs they ride side-saddle." The Crillon is considered no more secure. "The only thing we talk about...
...onetime military aide who was recently designated General Creighton Abrams' deputy in Viet Nam. The huge, 164-member U.S. Embassy in Paris will provide manpower and logistical support for the delegates, most of whom are likely to bivouac just across the street from the embassy at the venerable Hotel Crillon. Harriman and Vance may use the now-vacant ambassador's residence, although Ambassador-Designate Sargent Shriver very much wants to get to Paris in time for the big show. He may be thwarted, however, by the fact that Charles de Gaulle is scheduled to visit Rumania next week...
...work redecorating it. Furniture was imported from France and upholstered in shimmering Cambodian silk. So that "everything would be perfect," boasted the Prince, he had even replanted the gardens and flown in a maitre d'hótel and a chambermaid from Paris' Hotel Crillon...
...raided two police outposts, stole arms and ammunition, killed seven police before disappearing into the dense Andean jungles. Last week the terrorists carried their vicious little war to Lima itself. One night a small bomb exploded in Lima's fashionable Club Nacional and another erupted outside the nearby Crillon Hotel. Remarkably, only three people were hurt...
...European ménage à trois, smoothly explaining to his wife, "I love her, but she will never want to get married, and anyway you and I have so much in common"; of a heart attack; in the suite that he and Garbo were sharing at Paris' Hotel Crillon...