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Finally there are those who, chafing at the bit of tepid local escapes and unrestrained by mundane financial considerations, make the most pronounced effort to realize their mythical oasis by spending the week skiing in St. Moritz or soaking up the sun in the Bahamas. These are the true inheritors...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: The Wrongs of Spring | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

Homeless refugees, the Maharanee of Baroda and her son Princey arrived in Monte Carlo from India 16 years ago. Prince Rainier kindly made them citizens of tax-free Monaco, and in next to no time they were busy teaching the natives how to play marbles with emeralds the size of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 20, 1975 | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

Faisal shuns modern dress for the traditional long cotton lhawb that Arabs wear beneath an abayeh or robe. His meals are bland and include much .boiled rice because of a series of ulcer operations. The King routinely works a 16-hour day, which leaves him little time for a private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: A Desert King Faces the Modern world | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

Oil-rich Arabs may be buying banks in New York and London, but an attempt to break the bank at Monte Carlo last week was somewhat less successful. When three Saudi Arabian princes, including Minister of the Interior Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, dropped more than $6 million on the roulette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONACO: Chancing Sheik to Sheik | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

Though Kennedy was likely to gain the nomination if he reached for it and was perhaps better suited than anybody else to unify the Democrats' left and right wings, Chappaquiddick made it questionable that he would defeat Gerald Ford in 1976-unless the President stumbled badly, particularly in handling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Kennedy Creates a Free-for-AII | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

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