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Allying with fun-loving Cousin Edmond, the banking Rothschilds have also got into the tourist boom. They hold the largest single share in a new company that is erecting ski resorts in the Alps, building bungalow villages in Majorca, investigating sites for motels near the new Mont Blanc tunnel. From the U.S.'s Restaurant Associates, Cousin Elie recently bought an interest in France's largest casino, at Divonne-les-Bains. Cousin Edmond himself has poured $5,000,000 into France's plushest Alpine resort at Megève, has large shares in a European travel club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: New Elan in an Old Clan | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

Sixth Annual Buick Open Golf Tournament (NBC, 4:30-6 p.m.). From Warwick Hills Club in Grand Blanc, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jun. 7, 1963 | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...Tuan. He is soon upstaged by the arrival of Ava Gardner; the sight of her well-mounted emerald necklace nearly turns the military two-step into a rout. Ava is a mysterious Russian baroness, and her escort is her roommate at the Hotel Mont Blanc, Charlton Heston, splendid in the dress blues of a U.S. marine. Prince Tuan furiously departs, taking with him a troupe of Boxer sword dancers who had terrified the guests with their choreographic snickersnee until Heston got into the act and threatened to slice the fattest of the group into Boxer shorts. Next morning the German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Foreign Devils Go Home | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

Geneva is the only city in the world to have gained fame and prosperity from successive failures. This placid, tidy town lying on the shores of Lac Léman and beneath Mont Blanc, the tallest of the Alps, has been the scene of some of humanity's most trying moments. It is a place where great ideas turn to dust in the archives, and where nations exhausted by war come to end their fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conferences: The City of Lost Causes | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

Tragic Anecdotes. The explosion shot a half-ton piece of the Mont Blanc's anchor two miles through the air. It pulled a sailor off the deck of a nearby merchantman, and tossed him up to the top of a hill half a mile away. Somehow he lived. It tore rocks up from the bottom of the harbor and sent them raining from on high. It sucked up so much water that divers working 22 ft. down elsewhere in the harbor suddenly found themselves standing chest-deep and wallowing for their lives before the onrush of a tidal wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: H Was for Halifax Then | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

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