Word: staterooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rosnay hopes that his new venture will enable him to escape Paris for six months a year "on a big sailboat" with three rooms: a stateroom, a library and a room for telecommunications. That should not be too difficult even if Petropolis fails to catch on. De Rosnay's beautiful wife Isabel, 21 (TIME, June 16), is a granddaughter of Bolivian Multimillionaire Antenor Patiño, whose trust...
Kissinger occasionally catnaps on one of two bunks in the green stateroom he is sharing on this shuttle with Wife Nancy. From time to time he consults a fat blue looseleaf notebook crammed with constantly updated bargaining positions, options and alternatives, or studies the flood of incoming "Tosec" or outgoing "Secto" cables (550 in the first week of the latest shuttle) that pass in code between his Air Force jet and Washington. Kissinger steadfastly refuses to use a telephone. "I won't talk on the phone," he barked at an aide who suggested an airborne call...
...Night at the Opera is one of the two or three funniest movies the Marx brothers ever made. Everyone loves the scene where more and more people are shoved into Groucho's "stateroom," or the Take-Me-Out-to-the-Ballgame interlude at the opera. That funny foreign language the brothers speak before a throng in New York is the soundtrack running backwards, but the New Yorkers couldn't tell. Vesti la Giubba is the aria from Pagllacci that Groucho is always humming (It was also Caruso's most popular record.). Don't forget the two hard-boiled eggs...
...remember being only mildly stirred to see him with Missy on his lap as he sat in the main stateroom [of Franklin D. Roosevelt's houseboat, the Larooco], holding her in his sun-browned arms." So goes Elliott Roosevelt's account of his father's affair with Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, his secretary for 20 years. In his already controversial forthcoming book An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park, Elliott says that everyone within the family, including Eleanor, accepted Missy's intimacy with the President. Another skeleton Elliott rattles with apparent enthusiasm is that of Joseph...