Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cozy Elizabethan mansion called Sutton Place, in Surrey outside London, offered 72 rooms, eight manhunting Alsatian watchdogs, four judo experts and two poltergeists dating back to 1777. So on the whole, it should have been ideal for Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, 73. Except for that beastly English winter climate. Even installing central heating and a warm-water swimming pool didn't take the chill off. At last Getty has left Sutton Place and moved into a furnished 14th century castle on the seacoast near Rome...
...Walter was willing to give her collection to them, and curators turned handsprings to meet her every whim. When she suggested that the paintings looked best in warmer surroundings than a museum, the Louvre cheerfully erected a second floor inside the Orangerie to convey the intimacy of her elegant mansion...
...began when I was three." Her mother, a frail Kashmiri, was a Congress Party leader in Indira's native city, Allahabad. Father was heir apparent to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the independence movement. Grandfather was a wealthy lawyer and an early member of the Congress movement. The Nehrus' mansion was a center for illegal Congress Party gatherings. Recalls Indira: "The most important meetings were on our lawn." Reprisals by India's British rulers were harsh, and often Indira watched one or both of her parents or grandfather being marched off to jail. A visitor to the Nehru home...
...expectation of civil war, that the President, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, first began to count which members of the armed forces might be loyal to him; and it was then that the Prime Minister, "moderate" old Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, set an armed guard around the President's mansion and made plans to kidnap him and ship him out of the country...
...lady crackled, "To hell with the money. I want my husband's jewels back." Since she scarcely counts all her fives and dimes, Woolworth Heiress Barbara Mutton, 53, could afford to be cavalier about the cash. Anyway, the thieves who broke into her $1,500,000 mansion near Cuernavaca, Mexico, took only $20,240-and most of that was in traveler's checks. What burned Babs was that they footpadded off with the "irreplaceable" jewel collection of her seventh husband, Laotian Prince Raymond Doan Vinh Na Champassak. The princess felt so sentimental about the necklace with the gold...