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...Massimo Livi Bacci, a professor of demographics at the University Cesare Alfieri in Florence, predicts that while populations on the Mediterranean's European north coast will barely increase over the next 30 years, those on the African south coast will rise more than 100 million. The numbers add up to an inescapable conclusion: if Europe is to find workers for all its industries and services in the years soon to come, it will have to raise its threshold of racial tolerance...
Mesmeric Effect. Singer Montand was born Yvo Livi, the son of an Italian broommaker. Fleeing Mussolini's Blackshirts, the family settled in the harbor district of Marseille, where Yves quit school to become successively a waiter, bartender, factory worker and hairdresser. His evenings he spent at the movies watching his idols-Fred Astaire, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Trenet; by the time he was 18, he was doing imitations of all three in suburban flea pits. The transition from provincial hoofer to Parisian headliner began in 1944 when Montand, newly arrived in Paris, happened to appear on a theater bill with...
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