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MARRIED. Christina Onassis, 27, Greek Shipping Heiress; and Sergei Kauzov, 37, former Soviet Shipping Bureaucrat; in Moscow (see WORLD...
...Greek myth? Absolutely, said acquaintances of the prospective bride. Not at all, insisted the bridegroom's mother. At issue: persistent rumors that Shipping Heiress Christina Onassis, 27, the twice-divorced daughter of the late Aristotle Onassis, will wed Sergei Kauzov, 37, a divorced former official of the Soviet ship-chartering agency Sovfracht, on Aug. 1, and settle down in Moscow. The couple are supposed to have met either in Moscow, where Christina negotiated the charter of her ships to carry American grain to the U.S.S.R., or in Paris, where Kauzov was sent on business. When the Soviet government...
Like competing suitors seeking the dowry of a fabled heiress, the major planemakers for months have been courting United Airlines. Salesmen from Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing-each carrying special pleas and promises-swarmed to the company's Chicago headquarters. There was also a fascinating newcomer on the scene, the European Airbus consortium. Reason for the wooing: United, the free world's largest airline, was preparing to place the first big order for the new generation of supersophisticated jetliners on whose fleet wings air travelers will fly into the 21st century...
...long after Caroline was born, Grace expressed the hope that her second child would be a son, so that her daughter would be spared the public life demanded of an heiress to a throne and "grow up to be anything she likes-even an actress." That wish came true when Albert was born a few months later, but Caroline grew up to be rather too independent-at least for her father's taste. At the Catholic school she attended she was considered "bright, outgoing, terribly inquisitive." Later, a former secretary to Princess Grace remembered a somewhat older Caroline...
...Gilman also made serious trouble for himself. It started a year ago, after the murder of wealthy, reclusive Grocery Store Heiress Marjorie Jackson. When the FBI arrested two suspects in Phoenix, Gilman flew to Arizona to interview them...