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...little bare now," apologizes Baron Guy de Rothschild, 72, waving his hand at the empty black lacquered walls of his office on the seventh floor at 21 Rue Laffitte in Paris. Indeed, the art works by Bernard Buffet and Francis Picabia have been packed away, and out front workmen are getting ready to chisel the famous family name out of the sandstone above the entryway. Reason: the Banque Rothschild is being nationalized by the socialist government of French President François Mitterrand, along with the country's other major banks and holding companies. The Rothschilds, who are stepping...
Last week, within the starkly modern precincts of one of its Manhattan galleries, Sotheby Parke Bernet, which has put on the block everything from Turner paintings to venerable bottles of Chateau Rothschild, virtually sold empty space. And racked up a record $90.1 million sale doing...
Well, it's always sad to see a good thing go to waste. When the cork on that bottle of Chateau Lafitte-Rothschild splinters and falls into the wine, connoisseurs all over the world cringe just a little...
...weeks in Europe holed up with Friend Bebe Rebozo, 68, and Assistant Nick Ruwe at a Paris hotel. But there were side trips to Versailles and Rheims and a two-day stay in the Bordeaux wine country at the château of Friend Baron Elie Robert de Rothschild. Next: Lausanne, Switzerland, and then on to Vienna, Flensburg, West Germany, and Denmark with an entourage of 30 friends and aides...
Watt's long-range plans call for the leasing of 1 billion acres of offshore tracts within five years. Aside from the ecological damage this might cause, Edwin Rothschild, director of the liberal Washington-based group Energy Action, argues that the leasing is "a dumb business move." Reason: it would quadruple the area opened each year for exploration at a time when oil companies are finding it difficult enough to develop profitably the tracts already available. Watt's answer is that he expects the oil companies to determine which tracts should be developed. Says...