Word: rubirosas
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...being what it is, Correspondent Judson Gooding found the bicycle the best bet for skimming to and from interviews, far speedier than taxis or the Metro. One of his colleagues had to resort to a more elaborate approach. Since the press was not welcome at the funeral of Porfirio Rubirosa, the Paris Bureau's Robert Smith dressed in black, hired a black-capped chauffeur and a black limousine and set out to cover the story. He had no trouble. Naturally the most varied and militant types of transport were put to use by our Saigon Bureau staffers...
...short, not overly bright, and bowlegged from years of polo. Yet Porfirio Rubirosa parlayed his genius for making women forget all that into 30 years of grand spree on the international circuit, a private fortune, a worldwide reputation as the last of the Casanovas, and lawful unions with five of the world's most beautiful, or else most spectacularly wealthy women...
...about the match, but he made his new son-in-law a minor envoy to Berlin and was soon convinced he had done the right thing. "He's an excellent diplomat," exclaimed papa, "because women like him and because he is a liar." Flor de Oro tired of Rubirosa in 1937, but Trujillo had found that he came in handy for many tasks, and Rubi stayed on the Dominican diplomatic payroll most of the time until El Benefactor's assassination in 1961. At its first meeting, the new government fired...
...estate near Cuernavaca, Mexico. There were seven tiers to the wedding cake, not in honor of her seven husbands but in honor of the groom's rank in Laos, and when the violin-serenaded reception was over, she was Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Grant Troubetzkoy Rubirosa Von Cramm Na Champassak...
...achievement with outsiders of the jet set. Guests have included French Premier Georges Pompidou (who was director general of de Rothschild Frères under his good friend Guy until 1962), former Premier Michel Debré, Prince Sadruddin Khan, Artur Rubinstein, the Charles Wrightsmans of Palm Beach and Porfirio Rubirosa...