Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Durhams are frank Anglophiles who have built an imposing half-timbered tower behind their house. In a neighborhood of housing-development bungalows, it is an astonishing sight. Marilyn Durham says that when Eleanor Perry writes to her describing things like the purple mountains of Monaco, "I sigh and look out at the clothesline." But she is gazing from an Elizabethan redoubt...
...modest prices for hotel rooms, counting on high occupancy rates to turn a profit. As he puts it: "I just don't believe in charging up to the hilt." Today he controls a hotel, restaurant, food, beer and gambling network that spreads into France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, Monaco and to New York (the Royal Manhattan Hotel on Eighth Avenue). Last year, on revenues of $818 million, his Grand Metropolitan Ltd. earned $33 million net, up 62% from the previous year...
...cost of the pendant (guesstimate: $100,000) with a donation to charity; he also said he would give UNICEF an amount equal to the bill for the party (perhaps another $70,000). There was no shortage of flowers or balloons or big names, such as Princess Grace of Monaco, Ringo Starr, Michael Caine and Raquel Welch (whose cast on her recently broken wrist was quickly loaded with autographs). And there were plenty of little names, as well-including an impressive Welsh choir made up of five of Burton's brothers and three of his sisters, plus their spouses...
...Eisenhower as No. 1 and No. 2. The rest of the top ten: 3) Novelist Pearl S. Buck, 4) Actress Patricia Neal, 5) First Lady Patricia Nixon, 6) Israeli Premier Golda Meir, 7) Ethel Kennedy, 8) Actress Helen Hayes, 9) Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, 10) Princess Grace of Monaco. The Most Admired were chosen by the magazine's 1,000-member consumer panel from a list of 28, which included Jacqueline Onassis, up to 19th from 23rd...
...that they had to have styling changes this year as well. The fate of the new models in the showrooms will thus provide a rare test of Sloan's Law. Chrysler Corp. is promoting style changes in such full-sized models as the Plymouth Fury, Dodge Polara and Monaco, and Chrysler Newport, New Yorker and Imperial. Newly sculpted body and roof lines, and new front and rear styling will be the big difference. Says Elwood P. Engel, Chrysler's vice president of styling: "Buying a car is like buying a suit. Nobody wants one with narrow lapels. People...