Word: fontainebleau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elba and landed in France: "The monster has escaped from his place of exile." "The Corsican werewolf has landed at Cannes." "The tyrant has reached Lyon." "The usurper has dared to advance within 150 miles of the capital." "Tomorrow Napoleon will be at our gates." "His Majesty is at Fontainebleau...
...account, she visited Kennedy at the White House more than 20 times, usually for intimate lunches. The Senate committee learned that on one occasion, while she was staying with Roselli and Giancana at Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel, she made a side trip to Palm Beach to spend time there with Kennedy. Judy claimed that she received countless telephone calls from him, and she seemed to dial his number quite often as well. White House logs show that during a 54-week period in 1961 and early 1962, she telephoned Kennedy 70 times from her home in Los Angeles...
...committee found that the CIA was thoroughly conned by the Mafia. The agency promised the Mob a fee of $150,000 for Castro's murder, and even passed along some lethal pills to the supposed killer outside the Boom Boom Room of Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel. But the Mafia never did anything to try to kill Castro. Apparently the Mafia men involved were simply stringing the CIA along to gain its protection against FBI interference...
...International Financier John Stonehouse explain in a telegram to Prime Minister Harold Wilson a mysterious disappearance that for 33 days had Britain buzzing with rumor and speculation (see TIME, Dec. 30). Last seen on Nov. 20 setting off for a jog on the beach at Miami's Fontainebleau Hotel and since then widely presumed to have drowned, Stonehouse had been variously alleged to be a victim of the Mafia, a Czech spy, a CIA agent and a financial swindler escaping his creditors. When he turned up in Melbourne last week, under arrest for entering Australia illegally, it all suddenly...
...recently observed sarcastically that "I was apparently married all those years to a man whose life was stranger than fiction." So, perhaps, was his death. On the afternoon of Nov. 21, Stonehouse, 49, seemingly in good spirits, set off on a jog down the beach at Miami's Fontainebleau Hotel, in full view of the lifeguards. Nobody saw him enter the water, but that evening attendants found his clothes still hanging in a cabana at the Fontainebleau along with more than $800 in cash and traveler's checks. The former Labor Cabinet minister has been missing ever since...