Word: rainier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elsa. To open the Son Vida in approved International Set style, Rainier invited a task force of names and name droppers and sailed on Aristotle Onassis' yacht Christina. Besides his beautiful wife Princess Grace, the guests included the sari-clad Maharani of Baroda, Hollywood Columnist Hedda Hopper and Partygiver Elsa Maxwell, and, of course, Onassis' great and good friend, Maria Callas. There was some worry about the propriety of Rainier's and Princess Grace's traveling on Onassis' yacht, since Ari and Maria are not married-a condition that Princess Grace, as a good Catholic...
Last week a campaign to lure the carriage trade back to Majorca was launched by Monaco's Prince Rainier, a resort operator whose flair for free publicity is the despair of rivals from Cairo to the Catskills. On a visit to Majorca last year. Rainier was impressed by plans initiated by two U.S. promoters to convert a magnificently battlemented castle (vintage 1900) into a luxury hotel and country club and bought into the venture. Called Son Vida (Life Estate), the castle is now an air-conditioned, lavishly plumbed hotel, boasts its own swimming pool, a golf course abuilding...
Trans Wrorld Radio, as the mission is called, was forced to leave Tangier in 1959, when Morocco declared that it was about to incorporate the free port. Its new site in Roman Catholic Monaco, near the summer palace of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, has proved to be admirably suited for the operation. The location is nearer Europe's geographical center. Ready and available were broadcasting facilities installed by Adolf Hitler. Trans World rented the installation from Radio Monte Carlo with a ten-year lease, automatically renewable...
Almost five years after she married Monaco's Prince Rainier III, Princess Grace, 32, told a Parade correspondent: "I know people think I lie around on a chaise longue eating grapes, but my job here is the hardest I've ever had-and the most complicated." Working a 16-hour day in their 200-room palace, she is now a plumper (by 10 lbs.) and darker blonde mother of two, wears glasses for nearsightedness, and denies rumors of a cinema comeback. "I don't like to use the word never," she says, "because who knows what will...
...limited to women's clothes, men's shirts, socks and sweaters, and food specialties. His merchandising credo is to give everyone "a little bit of luxury, to make a factory girl look like a debutante." But his customers are not limited to factory workers. When Prince Rainier and his Princess visited Britain last year they stopped at an M. & S. store to buy the Prince some cardigan sweaters...