Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SEPARATED. Caroline Grimaldi Junot, 23, princess of Monaco; and Philippe Junot, 40, self-described real estate entrepreneur; after two years of marriage, no children; in Monaco, where a palace spokesman made the announcement after Junot had been seen vacationing in Turkey with a comely companion he described as his secretary. Said Junot: "Everything is finished between Caroline and me. We are both free to do as we want...
When the burning fuse reached Cape Town, the sprawling colored suburb of Elsies River exploded. At sunset last Tuesday evening, reported TIME'S Peter Hawthorne, a crowd of demonstrators came together in front of the Monaco Cinema to commemorate the 1976 uprising. Suddenly they were confronted by a large squad of white and colored riot police armed with rifles, shotguns and batons. The air was filled with the crash of breaking glass, the smell of burning tires and tear gas, and finally the sound of shots...
...making his home in tax-free Monaco, Borg avoids the 85% bite he would feel in Sweden. A Swedish newspaper last year calculated his net worth at $7.25 million. That is surely low; Borg's investments, which IMG also manages, have appreciated at well beyond the inflation rate...
Frank Sinatra was in high society. Not his 1956 movie with Grace Kelly, although she was there as Princess Grace of Monaco. Also present were Cinema Bluebloods Gregory Peck and Cary Grant, who joined 1,600 others in Los Angeles to honor Sinatra as Variety Clubs International Humanitarian of the Year. Past winners-talk about high society-have included Albert Schweitzer, George Washington Carver, Jonas Salk and Winston Churchill. Accepting the award from his onetime costar, Sinatra was far from humble. "To Princess Grace and her royal crown," he joked, whisky in hand, "and to my Crown Royal...
January 31: On the first day of the new term the History Department at Harvard University announces that the vacationing American historians will be joined by the entire corps of European specialists who will begin a cooperative research effort at the Casino at Monaco...