Word: costas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ITALY. Summer skies were sunny in Italy, but that created its own problems. Tourists fleeing from the frozen north created colossal traffic jams at the Brenner Pass and three-hour tie-ups along other roads. Italians who flocked to Sardinia's much-ballyhooed Costa Esmeralda, where the Aga Khan is building a resort, found themselves quartered in half-finished hotels with neither lights nor hot water. And the annual crush of German tourists never quite materialized. Offended by a rash of Italian-made anti-German films, some German newspapers advised their readers to take their business elsewhere...
...unknown to most Americans, and of course among professionals he hardly ranks with Athenian Constantinos Doxiadis, planner of Islamabad, the huge new capital of Pakistan. Nor does he rate with such a giant as the French architect who calls himself Le Corbusier, or with prestigious Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa, designers of Brazil's new capital, Brasilia. Seventy-five-year-old Le Corbusier?having published theoretical plans for doing over Barcelona, Bogotá, Algiers, Antwerp, Buenos Aires and Paris?is watching a city he designed rise in India on the flat Punjab plain 150 miles north of New Delhi. Brick...
...development were sold in two months, for houses costing from $46,000 to $190,000). And earthmovers were digging away at a 160-ft.-high dam that will hold a billion gallons of water to be used by the University of California and the residents of Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach...
Caught en route in a traffic jam, Scandalous John takes on a "hideously grinning" Buick with his bowie knife, and from then on things get worse. Author Gardner, 31, who lives on an island off Spain's Costa Brava, explains that his inspiration for this first novel was the question: "What would the American knight-errant be like and what would be his fate?" His answers seem to be Scandalous John's repeated cry, "I'm my own man," and his bloody end on a city sidewalk in a confrontation with an uncomprehending guardian of the sanitary...