Word: villa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black, Czech-built Tatra limousine pulled up outside Bonn's White House, the Villa Hammerschmidt. Out stepped two East German diplomats, chilled from their unannounced eleven-hour journey over the icy autobahn from East Berlin. They carried a letter from East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht to West German President Gustav Heinemann...
...scene reminiscent of 1829, when Andrew Jackson's mud-booted backwoods supporters swarmed into the White House for Old Hickory's Inaugural Day reception. Celebrating his election last week as West Germany's first postwar Socialist Chancellor, Willy Brandt invited all comers to his official villa on Bonn's exclusive Venusberg, overlooking the Rhine...
Happy birthday telegrams and letters poured in by the bagful. But at 88, Pablo Picasso remained in seclusion at his villa near Cannes on the French Riviera, granting no interviews and seeing only a few carefully chosen friends. The most that newsmen and well-wishers could hope for was to hear Picasso himself answer the phone and in his distinctive voice announce: "Monsieur et Madame ne sont pas ici . . . " Click...
Left wing Bill Bellows scored the prettiest goal of the afternoon in the third period with a hard shot off the inside post and substitute Tom Villa added another Harvard tally in the third session...
Still a bachelor at 42, Cornfeld keeps a Paris apartment, a London townhouse and a 13th century chateau just across the Swiss border in France. His principal abode is a Geneva lakeside villa, where the household includes two ocelots, his Russian-born mother and often a covey of miniskirted proteges. Lately, the restless Cornfeld has turned over much of the day-to-day operation of I.O.S. to some of his millionaire aides. Cornfeld remains the chief, but he obviously hopes to convince the remaining skeptics that I.O.S. is something more than his private fief...