Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indefinitely postponed," but Editor in Chief Grace Mirabella says, "I didn't get the feeling she was never coming." Rumors started to fly like sand gnats. Stephanie was suffering from exhaustion, or something even more dire, in a private hospital outside Paris; her father, Prince Rainier, had put his royal foot down right in the middle of the burgeoning career...
...received 371 sheets by Durer in a transfer from the imperial court library in Vienna. Not all were genuine, and scores were lost by theft during his lifetime, thanks to a corrupt employee who sold them to dealers, but the Albertina collection today is to Durer what the royal collection at Windsor is to Leonardo...
...sheer swell of it. Traveling with an entourage of 20 in his private Boeing 727 (dubbed Capitalist Tool, after the magazine's slogan), Forbes made his first stop at the Grand Palace in Bangkok. He brought along an $80,000, 90- ft.-tall, elephant-shaped balloon to entertain the royal family, but high winds curtailed the flight. Forbes is not bothered by little deflations though, or by large round sums. The trip's $250,000 cost will come out of his own pocket, he said, with no tax deduction...
Before the Bitburg controversy broke, White House aides saw Ronald Reagan's trip to Europe as a pleasant presidential peregrination filled with photo opportunities. His ten-day itinerary includes both statecraft and diplomatic theater: a state visit to West Germany, the economic summit meeting in Bonn, a royal fete in Spain, a speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, high-level meetings in friendly Portugal. Reagan's theme will be "accentuate the positive," and in his remarks and speeches he will emphasize the 40 years of peace, amity and (relative) prosperity since...
...Reagan arrives in Madrid on May 6, he will probably be greeted by a host of anti-American demonstrators ranging from Trotskyite Communists to Spain's version of the German Greens. Because of security concerns, the President will confine his visit to the west side of Madrid, where the royal palace and Prime Minister's residence are located. On May 7, he will take a constitutional around the garden of El Pardo palace with King Juan Carlos and hold talks with Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez. The leaders may discuss Gonzalez's campaign to get Spain into NATO and the Prime...