Word: liechtensteiner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used an idea tried in other European countries, where free enterprisers have long livened the state-controlled air (and reaped the income of commercials). Example: French broadcasters have set up a commercial station beyond the reach of French regulation in tiny Andorra. Free Enterpriser Fogh incorporated himself in Liechtenstein as "Internationale Merkur Radio Anstalt," bought an ancient, 100-ton freighter and fixed her up with Panamanian registry, a 36-kw. transmitter, a towering g8-ft. antenna. He tapes programs in a suburban villa near Copenhagen, ferries them out to sea in his own cabin cruiser...
Wanting to celebrate his 38th birthday by getting away from it all, Egypt's blimp-sized ex-King Farouk put on his sunglasses, boarded a 22-seat bus and rolled through the Alps into the tiny principality of Liechtenstein. His fellow riders: his 19-year-old daughter Princess Ferial, two bodyguards, a chauffeur, a maid and an anonymous raven-tressed playmate. Explained His Corpulent Majesty: "People think I and my entourage are an ordinary tourist party...
...Kulm Hotel bar. Lately, the Cresta roster has been larded with the names of such middle-class sportsmen as Bibbia, come to compete with nobility in the Alps. Last week, among Grocer Bibbia's fellow sleighriders were such visitors as the Marquis de la Falaise and Liechtenstein's Prince Constantine. Among them, however, there was only one man considered a sure bet to do better than the Italian. He was a Canadian World War II bomber pilot named Doug Connor, holder of just about every record on the Cresta books and winner of nearly every other Cresta...
...Swiss Alps, in St. Moritz' Palace Hotel, 1,000 guests washed down a dinner of caviar and filet mignon with vintage champagne, then danced the night away until 7 in the morning. Among the merrymakers were Shipping Tycoon Stavros Niarchos, Cinemastars Linda Christian and Hildegarde Neff, Liechtenstein's Prince Constantine, Irish Beer Heir Loel Guinness. As the evening glowed to a climax, roly-poly Winston Churchill II, 16-year-old grandson of Sir Winston, leaped on a table, grabbed a cane, gaily began popping the balloons...
Purchase of the week: four old masters, by Canada's National Gallery, from the collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein...