Word: onassisism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aristotle Onassis, who is vain about his public image, came in for a great deal of vitriol. But Hughes Rudd, commenting on CBS News' 60 Minutes, defended him. "The question of his being a Greek had nothing to do with it at all, of course: Prince Philip is actually...
Of course, he is even richer than he is considerate. Some observers suggested, neither unkindly nor jokingly, that even a woman as comfortably fixed as Jackie Kennedy might more easily continue to live in her accustomed style as the wife of one of the world's richest men. Though...
The ceremony that joined the pair was almost self-consciously modest. Rain, considered a blessing by the Greeks, had descended like a grey benediction across the Onassis-owned island of Skorpios. In the tiny chapel, Jackie stood quietly-almost in a daze-in her beige chiffon-and-lace dress, Ari...
The speaker defending Jackie Kennedy's marriage to Aristotle Onassis was no gossip columnist or pundit-indeed, few society reporters were so disposed. He was Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, Prince of the Holy Roman Church and-as it turned out last week-foremost a friend in need...
Totally Unpredictable. In announcing his decision to resign well ahead of schedule, Cushing complained that 98% of the mail he had received since his statement to the Caritas Guild had condemned his stand. The cardinal sentimentally pointed out that his own sister had married a Jew outside the church and...