Word: rainier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...games that have been played, Harvard won one, tied one, and lost two. The lone victory was over a weak Tufts team. The Crimson tied Brown and was out-splashed by Princeton and Dartmouth, on two of the season's rainier weekends...
...Italian writer named Niccoló Machiavelli journeyed to Monaco to gather material for a book by watching the agile Grimaldi rulers in action. Last week the incumbent Grimaldi, Prince Rainier III, could have used a couple of guileful hints from Machiavelli's The Prince in his squabble with France's Charles de Gaulle...
...What set Rainier and De Gaulle at odds was Monaco's long standing as a tax haven, a situation that dates from 1816, when the reigning prince sold off some acreage and put the proceeds in a fund to cover government expenses and relieve Monégasques forevermore of the need to pay taxes. France saw nothing wrong with this until thousands of French corporations and individuals began setting up domiciles in Monaco to dodge French taxes...
Last week De Gaulle pushed matters closer to the brink by doubling postage rates for Monegasques to 10? a letter. After hushed parleys in his palace, Rainier retaliated in kind. With the crisis threatening to escalate, Princess Grace rushed back from a shopping trip to Paris with her two children and a poodle, and 30 "war" correspondents flocked into the principality. In the U.S., meanwhile, Rainier found a champion in the New York Herald Tribune's Art Buchwald, a quondam Riviera rover now based in Washington. Rainier should bar a Negro student from the Monaco High School, suggested Buchwald...
...frequently meets the high and mighty in his post, he is pretty casual about it all. He describes the Shah of Iran as "my kind of shah," charmed Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan by presenting him to Kennedy as "the greatest name in Britain." Meeting Grace Kelly and Rainier on the White House steps, Powers was so taken by Grace's beauty that he said. "Welcome to the White House, Princess," then turned away before remembering that her husband was there too. He wheeled around and added: "And you too, Prince." When he met Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna...