Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exceedingly kind to a desert tribesman who sought the King's ear for a petty grievance. But he could also be severe with a junior member of the Saud dynasty who had discredited the royal family by gambling away huge sums of money on the roulette wheels of Monaco or Las Vegas. An aide who once asked Faisal why he did not compliment people who did good work for him received a blunt answer: "It is their duty...
...dealers. Their sales -mostly of spare parts and used arms-comprise less than 5% of the world weapons trade. The private dealers survive primarily because their unrivaled knowledge of specific markets enables them to find customers for surplus weapons. For example, Samuel Cummings, an American who now lives in Monaco, recalls that a few years ago he was able to supply Sudan's mounted cavalry with much needed lances, which he had picked up from Argentine arsenals. With ten weapons-filled warehouses in Alexandria, Va., Cummings today can supply a small army at short order-if Washington gives...
Homeless refugees, the Maharanee of Baroda and her son Princey arrived in Monte Carlo from India 16 years ago. Prince Rainier kindly made them citizens of tax-free Monaco, and in next to no time they were busy teaching the natives how to play marbles with emeralds the size of tiger's eyes and drink Dom Pérignon from Waterford crystal mugs. But this was poverty to a family that at one time had a fortune of more than $300 million, and stifling to a woman who once flew the Atlantic to telephone India from London because...
Bandit Attack. Though the Kunsts were often greeted royally (by Princess Grace of Monaco, among others), they also had misadventures. Mistaken for smugglers in the Spanish countryside one night, they were prodded awake by guards with Sten guns. The mayor of a French village chased them out of his house when they came to call, and they were stoned by anti-Americans in Iran and Turkey...
...meet me at the airport," he groused, ignoring the Air France director, the pretty girls bearing flowers and the limos-all of which were on hand at the Nice international airport, even though Sammy and his party of 16 arrived the day after he was expected. No sooner in Monaco than he was miffed again. The Rainiers were entertaining the players in a pro celebrity tennis tournament and had failed to include him. Next day, several hours before he was due to sing, Sammy boarded the Silver Gate and sailed away. Comic Bill Cosby retrieved the evening with the help...