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According to the original flight plan, French Pilot Gaston Grellier, 40, headed toward a non-French refueling stop, at Majorca in Spain's Balearic Islands, to avoid putting down in Algeria. In the air the first directive crackled from Algeria: "Refuel at Palma and then proceed to Algiers." Since French delicacy dictated that the Sultan should be among the first to hear that his hospitality was being violated, Pilot Grellier was also told to radio his new destination back to Rabat. Seeing the report, the Moroccan Minister of Works cried, "This is pure piracy," and ordered instructions sent...
Prices are still low in Spain. More than 250,000 U.S. vacationers are expected this year, v. 50,000 in 1953, when Ralph Reed persuaded the Spanish government to join American Express in a travel promotion program that touched off Spain's tourist boom. Palma de Majorca, in the Balearic Islands, is still the top tourist attraction, but the coves of Spain's Costa Brava and Malaga's sandy beaches will pull thousands of American sun worshipers...
...around the problem by becoming a prose writer. His friend Lawrence of Arabia gave him permission to write the first "official" Lawrence biography; on the proceeds of this and of his own Goodbye, Graves was able to settle down on five stony acres in the Spanish island of Majorca. Except when driven home by war, Graves has lived there ever since, enjoying the "best &weather in Europe " and "the only sea, the Mediterranean," without abandoning the Greenwich meridian (which passes through London but misses Majorca by about 130 miles). "Those who stay out of England develop a much better sense...
...still husky, cleaves the air with a great Roman nose which he once broke playing Rugby. He looks and moves like a grizzly bear, is an authority on army obscenity, can boom out many a bawdy, masculine song to his own guitar accompaniment. In Majorca he rises early, scorns the Spaniards' late meal hours, tucks away hearty platters of nononsense, British-type roast lamb, cabbage and potatoes...
ROBERT GRAVES Deya, Majorca, Spain...