Word: oberon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bruno Pagliai-Merle Oberon, that is-padded prettily across the rug, with its fanciful design of chimpanzee, parrot and elephant, on her way to the telephone ringing in the bookcase behind a Chinese print. "Yes, darling, I know," she cooed happily. "They say the weather is simply frightful just about everywhere in the world...
...concert tour, Frank announced that he needed a month-long vacation and chartered the Southern Breeze, a 168-ft. yacht owned by Houston Businessman C. W. Edwards, for a reported $2,000 a day. Mostly he asked people his own age-respectable Hollywood matrons such as Claudette Colbert, Merle Oberon, Rosalind Russell, and their husbands. He also invited Mia Farrow, 20-year-old daughter of Actress Maureen O'Sullivan and the late Director John Farrow. The ensuing voyage was probably the most closely watched since Cleopatra floated down the Nile to meet Mark Antony. Frank had been seeing...
...number of Australian military advisers in South Viet Nam to 60. To bolster home defenses, the government ordered 100 supersonic Mirage jets from France and 24 TFX (now known as the F-111A) fighter-bombers from the U.S., plus three U.S.-made missile-firing destroyers and four British Oberon submarines. Last week Menzies carried the beef-up further, announced the reinstatement of the draft, which had been dropped...
...John Mills, 50, a wartime Polish commando, doesn't really need him: as soon as he bought Manhattan's El Morocco (from Edwin Perona, son of the late founder), dozens of friends dropped by for a toot, from venturesome capitalists like Sherman Fairchild to Cinemactress Merle Oberon. After all, Mills already runs a triple-barreled London establishment (casino, nightclub, restaurant) that is loaded with big game, including Prince Philip and the Sheik of Kuwait. Though Mills says "I wouldn't dare" change the zebra's stripes, he is adding a few jolly wrinkles: discotheque, a Rolls...
...defense budget by $124.5 million to a total of nearly $586 million. Australia's seven squadrons of obsolete Canberra bombers and F-86 fighters will be replaced with French Mirage 111-0 fighters. Menzies has also placed orders for three U.S. guided-missile destroyers and four British Oberon-class submarines to bolster Australia's tiny fleet, consisting of a single aircraft carrier (damaged in a collision last Feb. 10), three destroyers and a handful of frigates and mine sweepers...