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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aristotle Socrates Onassis is a Greek-born Argentine who water-skis in the best international circles and includes among his friends Prince Rainier III, Pooh-Bah of the tiny principality of Monaco and its famed Monte Carlo Casino. At 47, Onassis has homes in Paris, New York, Montevideo and Antibes, owns or controls a fleet of 91 tankers, freighters and whaling ships worth an estimated $300 million, and has a pretty 23-year-old wife. But he didn't get all this by breaking the bank at Monte Carlo-quite the opposite. Last week "Ari" Onassis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The Man Who Bought the Bank | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

Craps & Hand Grenades. But as soon as Onassis called on his old friend, Prince Rainier, the atmosphere became more friendly. The Casino, once the gathering place of rich royalty and the royally rich, had fallen on bad times. Gone were the days when Alexandra, Czarina of all the Russias, could bring the entire corps of the Imperial Ballet to dance while she gambled, when a Casino patron could toss a hand grenade into the roulette wheel after losing his wad and scarcely raise a commotion. Currency restrictions had cut the once-rich British trade to a trickle; the recently installed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The Man Who Bought the Bank | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...inversion has waves in its surface (common near mountain ridge's), the pilot may see a line of bright objects in rapid motion. Menzel believes that this is what Pilot Kenneth Arnold saw in 1947 when he reported the first flying saucers over a high ridge near Mt. Rainier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Astronomer's Explanation: THOSE FLYING SAUCERS | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

Latest Fashions. The Air Force is not alone. In spite of firm squelching, flying saucer stories have not died. They have changed somewhat with time; the first ones reported, sighted near Mt. Rainier in 1947, were round and shiny, and they flew in daylight with no unusual maneuvers. The saucer-conscious public duly reported many more like them. Then the fashion changed when two airline pilots told about seeing, near Montgomery, Ala. one night, an enormous, wingless, cigar-shaped craft with glowing portholes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Saucers | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...Middens that have lost all their lime have stone artifacts much cruder than the Folsom type. There are even older middens with only rough stone flakes and grinding slabs. These sometimes have two or three layers of clay that were probably formed at a time when the climate was rainier than it is today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The First Americans | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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