Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main focus of the vacation onslaught has been that 160-mile strip of overbuilt beach front in the south of France, the Côte d'Azur. Local rail terminals are overflowing as additional sun worshipers pour into Saint-Tropez, Sainte-Maxime, Cannes, Nice and Menton. When they arrive, along with myriad motorists who are clogging France's autoroute du soleil, a rude shock is waiting: no accommodations are available. As many as 1,000 people a day are redirected by the local tourist office to the Maritime Alps, inland and anywhere from 50 to 100 miles...
...Chrysler itself. Chrysler would get out of the European market completely, except for its 15% share in Peugeot, thus shedding 70% of its foreign production and about a fourth of its worldwide output. Additionally, in the past year the company has sold operations in Argentina and Turkey to local investors; it is dickering to have Japan's Mitsubishi take over at least part of Chrysler Australia and has been trying to induce Volkswagen to buy part of Chrysler Brazil. Chrysler may sell some other Latin American operations...
...Irish immigrant tailor, Wilmot left high school to help support his family and, by 21, was deeply involved in Rochester's Democratic politics. Through political connections, he got a job as assistant manager of the city's airport. He took flying lessons from Elmer Page, a local instructor, and in 1939 joined him and three other men to form Page Airways, which operated a flying school and charter service. It began with two Piper Cubs, a Waco biplane and a desk borrowed from a Democratic ward office...
...year-old priest, Baggio (pronounced Bah-jee-o) has moved steadily upward in a flawlessly loyal career. As signed first to Vienna, he soon became a Latin American virtuoso, serving in six countries and learning, as he went, superb Spanish, Portuguese, English and half a dozen local dialects. The pastoral job Pope Paul found for him in 1969 would have discouraged a lesser man: the Archbishopric of Cagliari in Sardinia. Baggio gamely traveled the island in a simple black cassock, exhorting fraternal love in place of the endemic vendetta, cajoling landlords and industrialists to provide better conditions for workers...
Supermodel Margaux Hemingway can spot a good makeup job-even in the valley of the Amazon. "I'd rather be made up with this than with mascara and all," she joked about the berry paint used by the local Makiritare Indians. Margaux and her father Jack Hemingway, eldest son of Ernest and an ex-stockbroker, spent 15 days in Venezuela to co-star in an upcoming ABC documentary about the people and wildlife in the jungle. "I was the first white woman in the Indian camp," she says. "They wanted to touch my breasts to prove I wasn...