Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week George Martinez, the newspaper heiress's attorney, sent a pardon application to Attorney General Griffin Bell. After reviewing her case?a process that could take as long as 90 days ?Bell will pass on his recommendations to President Carter, who will make the final decision. Trying to do her bit, Patty sometimes wears a T shirt that reads PARDON ME on the front and, on the back, BEING KIDNAPED MEANS ALWAYS HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY...
...story, of course, is Agatha Christie's: a closed-room, or rather a closed-ship murder mystery. The most significant victim is Linnet Ridgeway (Lois Chiles), an heiress taking a Nile cruise for her honeymoon. As it develops, just about everyone in first class has both motive and opportunity to do her in. Naturally, one does not imagine that Dame Agatha's immortal detective, Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), pulled any triggers, and one can only spare the odd suspicious thought for Colonel Rice (David Niven), who assists him in his investigation. But that leaves plenty of others: Bette...
...have this friend, an attractive shipping heiress? I'd rather not divulge her name, because she doesn't want any of this to get out, so let's just say she's Greek or something. I'll call her Christina...
MARRIED. Christina Onassis, 27, Greek Shipping Heiress; and Sergei Kauzov, 37, former Soviet Shipping Bureaucrat; in Moscow (see WORLD...
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...