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Breweries are also adding wine lines: Schlitz and Seattle's Rainier companies have moved into the wine business during the past few years. Food-processing companies are heeding the ancient Roman proverb, "A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine": Pillsbury Co., Nestlé and the R.T. French & Co. of mustard fame have recently become vineyard owners. So have Lazard Frères, the Wall Street investment-banking firm; John Hancock, the insurer; and Southdown Inc., the Houston-based conglomerate. Takeover-ripe wineries have become rare, and the bids for them are enormous. The Gallo brothers have...
...young Iowa girl called "that silly sports effort." Munich's gala atmosphere has also drawn an older, more pecunious group: the international set, complete with titled leaders. Ensconced in carefully protected Hilton Hotel suites, far removed from the surging street crowds, are Prince Philip, Princess Margaret and their highnesses, Rainier and Grace. Unlike the youthful tourists, however, the beautiful people last week showed keen interest in some of the Olympic competition, especially the dressage qualification in horseback riding at the exclusive Riem Riding Academy, and trap and skeet shooting on the elegant Hockbruck course. The man who took home gold...
...annual relay races at the Monte Carlo Beach pool. The royal family won last year-Prince Rainier remaining regally dry on the sidelines -but this time 17 other local families provided more of a battle. Rainier's youngest daughter Stephanie, who is only seven, got off to a slow start, then Princess Grace, a somewhat plump 42, plunged in and gained a bit. Albert, 14, swam best of all, but he was barely able to pull the first family into second place...
There were plenty of acceptances, from King Hussein to Princess Grace and Prince Rainier, as well as Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny. But most of the visitors were lesser-knowns, such as King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Liechtenstein's Prince Franz Joseph and Swaziland's Premier Prince Makhosini...
...international beauty was both demure and dazzling when she showed up with her mother at a local garden club reception. Wearing high style with young grace, thirteen-year-old Princess Caroline was a credit to her parents -Philadelphia-born Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco...