Word: cristina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sorting through stacks of mail from the worlds of both fashion and politics. "One letter may be a request for an interview as a fashion designer," he says. "The next letter is from a constituent who complains about the electricity service in his village." With his elegant wife Cristina, 31, and two children, Pucci lives the restless life, traveling, speaking, designing, electioneering (he hands out signed scarves with his campaign literature...
...life is built around his preparations for kingship. The government pays his living expenses, estimated at $43,000 a year, and provides him the elegant 20-room Zarzuela Palace. There he lives with his wife, Princess Sophia of Greece, whom he married in 1962, and-their children, Elena, 5, Cristina, 4, and Felipe...
...families would fill the whole hotel with their retinues, and it took a mule train to fetch their belongings from the railroad station. Now spring and summer are the busy months, and, says Cappelli, "today they come with a flight bag containing a change of underwear." ¶ Hotel Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, Spain. Queen Maria Cristina started it all back in 1912, when the city built a five-story hotel to accommodate the countless chamberlains, ministers, officers, grandees and courtiers who followed her to Miramar, the royal summer residence on the Bay of Biscay. Led by the Duke...
...Hotel du Palais in Biarritz, France. Like the nearby Maria Cristina, the Palais is the expression of a royal whim: Emperor Napoleon III built it as a summer residence in 1854 to please his wife Eugénie. The palace closed when the dynasty fell, but it reopened as a hotel in 1894 and has been one of the world's finest ever since. La specialité de la maison is pamper le guest. Winston Churchill became a regular only after the hotel at its own expense installed a custom-built, old-fashioned bathtub complete with bronze legs, just...
...said that the Leipzig Trade Fair is an annual event-the one now in progress is the 802nd. But this year there is a new sound to the old show: while some 70 nations display their wares, Communists and capitalists alike are clamoring for increased East-West trade. Says Cristina Dimitriu, director of Rumania's exhibit: "We are now interested more in business than in propaganda." Says Poland's Natalia Czaplicka: "We will sell anything to anybody...