Word: monaco
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Onassis' canny business dealings have helped fuel such sentiments. In 1952, he alienated his friend Prince Rainier of Monaco by quietly buying up a majority interest in the Société des Bains de Mer, which runs the Monte Carlo Casino. His reason: he had been snubbed in his search for office space. When he finally sold his interest back to Rainier, he cleared $5,000,000. In a 1954 attempt to monopolize the Saudi Arabian oil market, he made a deal with King Saud that would have given him exclusive rights to ship that country's petroleum. He thus brought...
...question of who sat where, Prince Alfonso de Borbon y Dampierre came out ahead of Dr. Christiaan Bar nard for the seat of honor at the right hand of Princess Grace of Monaco...
...when the music at Monaco's Red Cross Gala started, the Doc one-upped His Highness, had the first dance with the hostess. After the ball, Barnard, who had earlier conferred in Rome about his autobiography, continued globe-trotting for medical meetings in Australia, Thailand and The Netherlands before returning home to Cape Town...
There is Society, Birmingham announces; then there is Real Society. "There were few Real Society people in attendance at the wedding of Luci Johnson." But: "Nor were there Real Society people at the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco. ('I hear that they met,' said a Philadelphia Society woman at the time, 'at the home of a mutual friend in Ocean City, New Jersey. But how can that be? No one has gone to Ocean City for years...
Died. Pierre Rey, 70, financial adviser to Prince Rainier and president of Monaco's controlling Société des Bains de Mer from 1953 to 1959, chairman since 1963; of cancer; in Monaco. As boss of the S.B.M., which includes the casino, the yacht club the Hôtel de Paris and about one-third of Monaco's 375 acres, Rey was Rainier's lieutenant in the long struggle with Aristotle Onassis that ended last year when the government paid $8,000,000 for Onassis' interests in the casino company...