Word: excelsior
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...Shahinshah, arrived in Rome with a two-day beard on his chin, accompanied by his disheveled, 21-year-old Queen, who was on the verge of tears. That night, unable to sleep, the Shah paced the living room of their three-room suite at Rome's showy Hotel Excelsior. With his personal pilot, Major Mohammed Khatami, he talked over future plans for a pleasant exile. "He asked me to stay with him," the major said later. "I told him I was afraid I would become a burden to him." "Who," asked the Shah plaintively, "is going to play tennis...
...Shah bought himself four tennis rackets and a pair of black antelope shoes; Soraya bought lingerie and two crocodile handbags and, at a couturier's, ordered a dozen summer frocks. That noon, in the Excelsior dining room, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi began his shrimp cocktail, just another king in exile; by the time he reached his coffee, he was back in business as Shah. A reporter (see PRESS) rushed to his table with the news: "Mossadegh has been overthrown, Your Majesty!" The Shah's jaw dropped; his trembling fingers reached for a cigarette. "Can it be true?" he asked...
...Shah and Queen Soraya first arrived in Rome, Ehrman was the only newsman admitted to see them in the airport waiting room; the Italian police took him for an Iranian. Next day Ehrman reserved a lunch table close to the Shah's in the dining room of the Excelsior Hotel, arranged to get telephone bulletins from the A.P.'s office. When the news of Mossadegh's fall came in, Ehrman bounded past the waiters blocking his path, informed the Shah that he was still really in power, was rewarded by the Shah's telling him, before...
...travel agency, in Birmingham, arrived to check up on "the gay Englishman." he had disappeared. The travel agency did not say why they wanted Morton-Stewart, only that they were "most anxious to trace him." It was not hard. Soon afterward he checked into Rome's Hotel Excelsior as Horace Albert Hall. He stayed only long enough (a week) to woo and win a pretty young Italian widow, then left her in the lurch and sped...
...week Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney threw the weight of his Allied Forces, Southern Europe behind the Neapolitans. Eleven teams of "Mick" Carney's officers visited eleven Naples restaurants, while Carney himself, with the top brass of six nations, sat down to an array of pizza at the Hotel Excelsior. After the evidence was finally tucked away and evaluated, Carney gave his decision to Italian radio listeners: "I am a partisan of the Neapolitan pizza . . . but this discrepancy of point of view with Ike will not put any dent into the Atlantic defense line of Southern Europe...