Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mademoiselle Claude de Clermont-Tonnerre, 24. Says Marthe: "The idea came to me when I was in New York and heard Americans complain about the difficulties - and the coldness - they found in France." She recruited her cousin Claude and a dozen other sang-bleu friends to provide chic and cheery guidance for foreigners in Paris...
PORTUGAL has the Algarve, along the southern coast, now easily reachable by car from Lisbon over the recently opened Salazar Bridge. The chic people have begun to flock into two new ocean-view luxury hotels in Praia da Rocha and Portimào. The beaches and water are superb, the prices are reasonable, and there is a new 18-hole golf course, which will host this year's European Ladies championship. Another "find" this year will be the island of Madeira, 535 miles southwest of Lisbon; it has always had splendid accommodations, but its new airport opened 18 months...
...lives with her widowed mother gazes dreamily at the family's carefully manicured estate, brooding about the disorder within herself. "The warmth in me is so soft that it hurts," she mutters, in a plotless sequence as muzzy as her mood. Marie-France and Veronica tells of two chic Parisiennes, not yet 17, sophisticated but full of curiosity about the homme-dingers hanging around them. While Marie-France reads Baudelaire, Veronica lives him, at an endless round of wild parties. Her destiny, she sighs, is a marriage of convenience when...
...Puerto Rico, the islands still have the scrubbed and simple air of a fishing village. Though most of the residents are Negroes, racial tensions are minimal. Litter is as uncommon as unemployment and crime. In the past decade, the burgeoning tourist trade has brought luxury hotels, excellent restaurants and chic stores. A free port provides luxuries at low prices: a fifth of Tanqueray gin sells for $1.85 v. $5.98 in New York...
Robert Stack, a freelance photographer on the loose in Red China, stumbles onto the secret of a long-buried treasure. Once back in Macao, he develops a case of justifiable paranoia when he is set upon by a chic Chinese princess (Nancy Kwan) who keeps sticking out her tong at him. Following this he is mugged and bugged by a vicious racketeer (Christian Marquand) and an avaricious police inspector...