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Vienna in Switzerland. The most populous paradise for sun-starved Germans is the 200-mile strip of Spanish coastline along the Costa Brava and the Costa del Sol, where they have invested more than $55 million in the past two years. Italy is still popular with Germans from Konrad Adenauer down; on the French Riviera, real estate men say they are the best customers of all for three-room apartments priced at $60,000 up. But many well-heeled Germans have fled to more pastoral retreats such as Switzerland, where the government reported last week that they had bought...
Spain's Costa Brava, In five years ago, is Out now, though the Costa del Sol is still O.K. Out are St.-Tropez and Jamaica. In are Barbados, the Greek islands, and Sardinia, where the Aga Khan (very In) is building a resort. Southampton is In; Newport is coming back In fast, partly because of the Kennedys, who were married there at Jackie's mother's shorefront house...
...achievement in search of a public character to match, Robert Ruark is a public character still in search of the achievement that can justify it. After his initial success as a Scripps-Howard columnist, Ruark moved to Spain, found himself a handsome villa on the Costa Brava, bought a high-power rifle suitable for shooting big game, and discovered Africa. With the discovery, he declared himself a novelist. It was a mistake...
...been a cold, damp spring in Spain, but this has not deterred the first wave of the estimated 10 million foreigners-one for every three Spaniards-who will visit Spain this year, particularly the booming Costa Brava and Costa del Sol. which have turned into a kind of noisy, cut-rate Riviera, where conservative Spaniards sneer that the girls go to Mass in bikinis...
Prospective Buyer. One of Vera's lovers was Dr. Otto Praun, a suave, carefully tailored physician of 65 with a flourishing practice, a sumptuous house outside Munich, a $250,000 estate on Spain's Costa Brava. and a notorious weakness for tall, cool blondes. Their affair lasted for three years, during which time Otto gave Vera the Costa Brava estate...