Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind hearts with no coronets. "What interests me is not the crown, but what's beneath the crown." says France's Princess Isabelle. daughter of the French Pretender, the Count of Paris. A commoner should of course have money. Sweden's royal family ruled British Playboy Robin Douglas-Home (nephew of Foreign Secretary Lord Home) "unsuitable" as a consort for Princess Margaretha because of his low income. "You can't expect this young lady to get along without at least one maid," explained a palace spokesman...
During a speech at the University of North Carolina, members of the Tarheel student body thought they detected a familiar ring. Scheduled to speak on "Freedom and the Welfare State," Right-Winging William F. Buckley Jr., 37. instead read an article he had written for Playboy, in which he paeaned his own brand of conservatism, scourged left-leaning Author Norman Mailer, and cast doubt on the virility of Critic Kenneth Tynan. Agreeing that Buckley had used his text once too often (his fee was $1,000 for the same lecture in Chicago, another $3,500 from Playboy}, the speech...
Silent Bankers. Most Swiss bankers were characteristically mum about the National-Zeitung's story, but showed no eagerness to refute it. In Madrid. Ramfis Trujillo called the story a "slanderous potpourri of half-truths, exaggerations and outright lies'' planted by a former secretary of his playboy brother Rhadames. He couldn't help feeling sorry for himself, in all his luxurious exile: "My entire life was marred and unhappy because I was the heir of Rafael Trujillo...
...lighter sentence if he returned voluntarily, Gilbert winged back. He was still vowing to "pay off all those people who had faith in me and then lost everything they had," which would take some doing if the feds got all the money they were seeking. Mostly, though, Playboy Gilbert seemed to be longing for the company of an audience. "I don't mind going to jail." sighed Eddie Gilbert, "but I don't think I could stand it if they put me in solitary...
Undone at having grounded one of the highest flyers in the international set, German Playboy Gunter Sachs, 29, could not keep from babbling the news to everyone he knew. Iran's former Queen Soraya, 30, had consented to be his. But as news of the betrothal spread, the Iranian earthquakes struck. The ex-queen, feeling she "could make no step in her private life when thousands of people in her homeland had fallen victims to such a horrible catastrophe," postponed...