"Put up your hands! Get out of your car! Lie down in the road!"
These brusque commands the leader of a Rumanian robber band addressed, last week, to the occupants of the last of some dozen limousines to bear guests home from a dinner at Castle Mogoshoioa, sumptuous summer palace of Prince Jan Bibesco and his spouse, socialite authoress Princess Marthe (Catherine Paris) Bibesco.
A heavy steel wire stretched across the road had forced the last limousine to halt with screaming brakes. One of its occupants was the present Rumanian Minister to the U....
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