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...Portugal two years ago, had this time to find him first. The Pretender was somewhere in the Mediterranean aboard the yacht Saltillo. returning from the Athens wedding of his son Prince Juan Carlos to Princess Sophie of Greece. On a tip, Prendergast flew to the Spanish island of Majorca...
...billion) who was often called "the last pirate of the Mediterranean" and who bankrolled Francisco Franco's climb to dictatorship; of injuries sustained two weeks ago when his Cadillac crashed head on into a banking competitor's car; in Madrid. Though he was born penniless on Majorca and remained illiterate until the age of 40, hawk-featured March (pronounced Mark) scaled from stevedore to smuggler to shipowner, won over the Spanish tobacco monopoly, sold to both sides during both World Wars, gained control of much of Spain's banking, brewing, mining, farming, utilities, newspapers-and its politics...
...sections, property for sale in West Berlin outran buyers' advertisements 8 to 1. Many advertisers played openly on apprehension. Asked one: "Who would like to move his business to Hanover?" Others emphasized the attractions of living in West Germany ("near the French border" was one lure), Vienna, even Majorca. Despite West Berlin's lavish tax concessions to new industry, almost every Berlin-based company of note had put down a zweites Bein, or second leg, in safer territory...
Collected Poems, by Robert Graves. The bent-nosed Jove of Majorca is no Yeats or Eliot, but he can outdistance these masters in evoking the moods of love, childhood or the classic past. In his own right, he is an impressive poet, truer to his passions than to the literary fashions of his time...
Collected Poems, by Robert Graves. The bent-nosed Jove of Majorca has sometimes used prose as a pot in which to boil bestselling historicals (/, Claudius), but poetry is his sacred urn. On it, he engraves the moods and passions of love, childhood, and the classic past...