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Isabel de Rosnay, 21, is richer than Nicky. She is a billionette (looks like a billion), an heir to the fortune of her grandfather Antenor Patiño, the Bolivian tin king. She resembles a sleek, lacquered Andean Indian. Despite her wealth, Isabel is not idle. She does freelance public relations work, and helps her husband Baron Arnaud de Rosnay, 29, known as the Baroncito, promote backgammon in Europe. Recently, the Rosnays spent some time in the Middle East. Arnaud has devised an oil game, Monopoly style, called Petropolis ($790 for silver-plated derricks and gold-plated platforms...
...formal schooling. Early returns counted last week showed that Papua New Guineans had decided to take on self-government-or so it seemed. The conservative, white-dominated United Party, which had sent sound trucks through the main towns with the message in pidgin "My fella vote Unided Pati, yu fella vote Unided Pati," lost some seats it had held in the last Assembly, and emerged without a majority. The Pangu Pati (acrophonetic pidgin for Papua New Guinea Party), which draws its strength from the radical young black elite of the coastal cities and favors immediate self-government, gained ground, leading...
...summer long, the word has been out: the target for September is Portugal, the occasion the twin parties to be given by Franco-American Oil Millionaire Pierre Schlumberger and Bolivian Tin King Antenor Patiño. The Schlumbergers began getting ready for their bash four years ago, when they bought the 20-room 16th century Quinta do Vinagre (Vinegar Villa) at Colares, a coastal resort an hour's drive west of Lisbon. For months, architects and decorators have been transforming the grounds into an illuminated Eden, complete with a chandeliered pavilion for dancing. Rumor had it that...
Embrace and Exclaim. Two nights later, it was Patiño's turn. At his 240-acre Quinta Patiño, five miles away in Alcoitão, he had four bands, instead of the Schlumbergers' two. The moon was bright, the night clear and cool, as Patiño had hoped. And all the same people were there, the ladies in different gowns, to embrace and exclaim. No one could bear to miss a moment. As Iran's ex-Queen Soraya explained: "I'm very pained over what happened in Iran. But an earthquake...
...mother. Not very many movie people got invited, of course, but the Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur were there, and the Begum Aga Khan was there, and Gina Lollobrigida was there, and Princess von Furstenburg, and Sam Newhouse, and Mrs. Amintore Fanfani, and a number of Bourbon-Parmas, Rothschilds, Patiños, Dubonnets, D'Arenbergs, Romanoffs, Colonnas and Borgheses. It was the best film festival any of them could remember...