Word: corsica
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...million Ismaili Moslems, and Anouchka von Meks, 19, pert French-bred daughter of a German clothier, went briefly on the rocks. Bound for Sardinia in Karim's 15 ton cabin cruiser Taara, the pair suddenly found themselves lodged high and wet on a well-marked reef near Corsica's Gulf of Ajaccio. After the Taara was towed ashore, the Harvard-educated prince was informed by a local yachtsman that a French naval yard near by had facilities to repair the boat's mashed propellers, "but they won't help you because it's a military...
...Mediterranean isn't the English Channel and Corsica isn't Normandy, but Darryl Zanuck has been making sequences for The Longest Day, his re-creation of Dday, near a beige and white Corsican fishing village. Zanuck needed the U.S. Navy, and the only fleet the Pentagon had available for him was the Sixth. which is supposed to stay in the Mediterranean. Undaunted, Zanuck's special-effects technicians smoked out the high Corsican hills, beclouded the cobalt air, and hosed down the white beaches so the sand would look dark and Norman. A sign went up warning local...
...flew to Tunis to convince President Habib Bourguiba that he should back the Moroccan claim to Mauritania. Recalls Bourguiba: "The crown prince went so far as to say, 'If ever you want to lay claim to Sicily, we Moroccans will support you.' Sicily! Why not Nice and Corsica? That young man will just have to grow...
...nearly a thousand homes in France between 5 and 6 one morning fortnight ago turned out to be those of French policemen. Once inside, the cops informed their victims-refugees from a score of nations-that they had 20 minutes to dress and pack for an enforced trip to Corsica. At the request of Soviet officials, the French government had decided to clear Metropolitan France of "potential assassins" before Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Paris. And presumably they would now have to wait out Khrushchev's postponement as well...
...greatest number were aging Eastern European propagandists and journalists, who hardly seemed threats to anyone.* In Corsica, touted by French tourist agents as "the Isle of Beauty," the involuntary vacationers found themselves ensconced in resort hotels opened, by police order, a month before the normal tourist season. In their dark suits and berets, playing cards, smoking, engaging in the familiar polemic dialogues of expatriates, they transformed a cheerful, terraced Mediterranean café into the atmosphere of a coffeehouse in Bucharest. The internees' expenses were paid by the government; much of the time the weather was warm enough for swimming...