Word: royal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...September 1986, Harvard will throw itself a 350th birthday party, promising to attract thousands of the nation's richest, most conservative, and most elite for a gala a la the Royal Wedding...
...spend an average of $245 each on such items as a pastel flowered frock ($43) or a cotton sweater ($37)--about a third to a half the prices in Ashley's U.S. branches. Tourists crowding into the china-reject shops in Knightsbridge find a five-piece place setting of Royal Worcester's Evesham for $26, Baccarat crystal wineglasses...
Beyond such traditional attractions as London, Paris and Rome lie the superbargains. Denmark is quite cheap; Spain and Portugal are very cheap. A palatially balconied room at the onetime royal hunting lodge in Portugal's magnificent Bucaco Forest costs $35 a couple a night. The pottery shops around the noble monastery of Batalha or the Moorish stronghold of Cintra sell beautiful 18th century-style china for prices as low as $7 a plate. Greece is beyond cheap, particularly if you concentrate on the best bargain it has to offer: find yourself an out-of-the-way island in the Aegean...
...France's L'Express magazine, formally offered more than $800 million for up to 70% of Crown Zellerbach, a forest products company that has been fighting off the interloper since December. The day after the Goldsmith proposal, Icahn said he would pay $305 million for 51% of Uni-royal, a tire and chemical manufacturer, which immediately spurned the deal. The moves were only the latest in an increasingly frenzied round of takeover brawls and mergers. Last month Capital Cities Communications agreed to pay $3.5 billion for the American Broadcasting Cos. in what was then the largest U.S. merger outside...
...wonders why Barry hold back, given the abruptness from the palace, and the constant complaints about the family's parsimony. Whatever his reasons, Royal Secrets comes off as a shameless example of profiteering, full of tidbits that Barry could just as easily have included in his first book, Royal Service. "I realized that I had more to say," he writes in the introduction, but Windsor fans are still waiting for him to tell...