Word: rainier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wasp-waisted minaret, supported by six steel legs and topped by a four-story disk and a 40-ft. natural-gas torch. Within the slowly turning disk (one revolution an hour) will be a restaurant, an observation deck and a lounge where fairgoers will see a panorama of Mount Rainier, the Cascade Mountains, Puget Sound, the Olympic mountains and the city...
Married. Princess Antoinette Louise Alberte Suzanne Grimaldi, 40, dark, svelte first lady of Monaco until her brother, Prince Rainier, wedded (as she put it) "that movie star"; and Jean Charles Rey, 47, debonair Monaco lawyer; both for the second time (Antoinette is divorced from roving Riviera Tennis Pro Aleco Noghes); in a civil ceremony at The Hague witnessed by her mother, Princess Charlotte, but not by Rainier...
...clock in the afternoon, a small cloud of sand puffed over Rainier Mesa, Nev. From a tunnel deep below the mesa's sandy surface, a muffled thud rose to shake the desert silence. Minutes later in Washington, President John F. Kennedy announced that the U.S. had "reluctantly" completed its first nuclear-weapons test in nearly three years...
...Prince gamely assisted a matador and took a royal pratfall as the bull charged. No press cameras were permitted, but Princess Grace dutifully filmed her husband's moment of truth. "You should see what a terrible stare these beasts give you when you get close to them," confided Rainier breathlessly. At one dinner Elsa got one up on Hedda by taking over the piano to play Cole Porter tunes, accompanied by Rainier on drums. Then Ari bellowed the theme song (in Greek) from the movie Never on Sunday, while La Callas rattled the maracas but declined requests...
...Rainier allowed, beautiful Majorca "is a wonderful escape place," adding hastily: "It will never compete with my principality...