Word: umbertos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...furniture, immense Carmen Miranda style nightclubs, of two-tone deSotos and banana daiquiris. The older generation, at least, lived like old-fashioned Italian dons--eating good food, living in fine old houses, aspiring to a taste for literature and history. The younger generation is caught halfway between Scarsdale and Umberto's Clam House. Surprisingly, the movie Godfather II is closest to is The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: two hard young men, both ethnic outsiders, lose their humanity in the struggle to gain and hold on to a dream of power, wealth and respectability, all against a background of the same...
...favorite spots of exile, with Switzerland a close third. Albania's Leka I, Bulgaria's Simeon II and Russia's Grand Duke Vladimir-who presumably would be enthroned as Czar Vladimir III if the Romanovs were ever restored to power-live in Spain. Italy's Umberto II, Spain's Don Juan and Portugal's own Duarte, Duke of Braganza reside in Portugal. In Switzerland, there are Michael of Rumania and Ahmed-Fuad II of Egypt (Farouk's eldest son), while Otto von Hapsburg, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire who now calls...
...president of Compagnie Ferguson Morrison-Knudsen, a Paris-based subsidiary of America's Morrison-Knudsen Co., while Michael of Rumania is a stockbroker in Lausanne. Some live off the money they or their family got out of the country. Others, like Italy's Umberto, manage very well with the help of monarchist friends who either hope to restore them to power or are moved by a sense of nostalgia...
Almost all have given up hopes of returning. Don Juan and Umberto still hold shadow court in Portugal's Estoril, but more as a gesture to the past than a look to the future. Albania's Leka and Bulgaria's Simeon, on the other hand, still work for the day when their people will come to their senses and call them back. The only one who seems to have a real chance of resuming the kingly tradition, however, is Don Juan's son Prince Juan Carlos, who has been promised the Spanish throne on the death...
Many Skeptics. A steady stream of auto executives, from Henry Ford II to Fiat Managing Director Umberto Agnelli, has visited the Kalmar plant...