Word: onassisism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In their long-running game of oneupmanship, Greek Shipowners Aristotle Onassis, 61, and Stavros Niarchos, 58, have vied in everything from outfitting their yachts with art treasures to transforming their private islands into playgrounds for the beautiful people. But nothing has been more spirited than the rivalry between the onetime...
Olympic lost money at first, but Onassis has since built it into a flourishing carrier. Meanwhile, he has twice persuaded the Greek government to extend his original 20-year concession, first to 1986 and then to 2006. To Niarchos, that was too much. In a formal appeal, he argued that...
-Both wed daughters of Shipowner Stavros Livanos. Onassis' wife, Tina, divorced him in 1960 after the start of his friendship with Opera Singer Maria Callas, is now married to the Marquess of Blandford. Niarchos and Wife Eugenia were divorced in 1965, reunited -the Mexican divorce was not valid in...
Died. Pierre Rey, 70, financial adviser to Prince Rainier and president of Monaco's controlling Société des Bains de Mer from 1953 to 1959, chairman since 1963; of cancer; in Monaco. As boss of the S.B.M., which includes the casino, the yacht club the Hô...
"I just love my nose-goes with the setting," said the masked guest, tilting his twelve-inch rubber proboscis toward the Tiepelo frescoes on the ceiling of Venice's Palazzo Ca' Rezzonica. It was the season's gaudiest Ballo in Maschera (masked ball), and more than 500...