Word: rainiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunday the King presided over an official public state funeral, which was attended by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Chilean President Augusto Pinochet, Jordan's King Hussein, and Monaco's Prince Rainier. Like the rest of the week's solemn pageantry, the details had been planned well in advance−many of them by Franco himself. After the funeral Mass in Madrid's packed Plaza de Oriente, his coffin was escorted from the palace by the red-bereted Guardia del Generalisimo, marching on each side of the casket, to the Arch of Victory a mile away. There...
...ashamed," a tearful Beible tells reporters." But the whips and chains were planted. This is a frame." In Monaco, a spokesman for Prince Rainier categorically denies news reports. "Movie stars, yes," he says, "football stars...
...more the daughter of her father Prince Rainier III of Monaco than of Grace Kelly of Philadelphia and Hollywood; the immigrant Kellys' struggle for social acceptance is beyond her ken. She can chaff the prostitutes that line Avenue Foch outside her parents' Paris apartment and even joke when one is dropped off by a customer: "I wonder how those girls keep their hairdos in such good shape." But she will not be bourgeois. Grace would like her to take a cooking course at Maxim's. Says Caroline: "We have slaves for that." Replies Grace gently: "Yes, darling...
Homeless refugees, the Maharanee of Baroda and her son Princey arrived in Monte Carlo from India 16 years ago. Prince Rainier kindly made them citizens of tax-free Monaco, and in next to no time they were busy teaching the natives how to play marbles with emeralds the size of tiger's eyes and drink Dom Pérignon from Waterford crystal mugs. But this was poverty to a family that at one time had a fortune of more than $300 million, and stifling to a woman who once flew the Atlantic to telephone India from London because...
...whistle." Malraux hastened to add that he, for one, does not consider the scrub-up his supreme accomplishment. "My greatest coup," he said, "is that the Restaurant Lasserre in Paris created Pigeon André Malraux to outdo another restaurant, Le Grand Véfour, which had invented Pigeon Prince Rainier...