Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nervously assigned four additional farms to native Corsicans, rather than to the repatriates for whom they had originally been intended. Somivac's tourist counterpart, Setco, has already built four new hotels and is carving yacht basins along Corsica's bright, barren beaches-the most beautiful in the Mediterranean. The island's feral beauty has drawn visitors in increasing numbers-443,000 last year (up 20% from...
...among the nation's basic and hotly competitive fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. The two men are old pals in business and personal life. Love is also chairman of Chrysler Corp., of which McCollum is a director. They met frequently, a year ago talked business on a Mediterranean cruise aboard the private yacht of Daniel Keith Ludwig, the world's largest shipping operator. Says Love of his plans with McCollum for a merger of coal and oil: "You might say that this total-energy complex is a dream we've had for a long time...
...obscene religion of carnival. As carnival impends, an imminence like electricity waits in the air, an itching in the mind invites convulsion. Convulsion begins: a Bacchic ecstasy of vino nero, roaring scooters, rock 'n' roll. Howard, a tidy Nordic, draws back in distaste. Sarah, a subliminal Mediterranean, is drawn toward delirium. One morning, imagining her intentions innocent, she lets a young bull of a Sicilian kiss...
India (TERRA INDICA) is slewed around due east of the Mediterranean, with a diminished Asia and China to the north of it. Offshore, across the Magnum mare Tartarorum, are renderings of large offshore islands, probably based on reports of Japan. Africa is lopped off below Ethiopi, but shows the magnus [ft] uuius which is apparently the Niger. In the Atlantic, there are the two mythical quad-shaped islands beyond the Azores that most medieval cartographers insistently put in. But in the upper left-hand corner were the unmistakable outlines of Greenland and Vinland, the latter rounded off into an island...
...which 30 are nuclear-powered-compared with the U.S.'s 134 subs (51 nuclear). Another cause for concern is that the Russians have recently concentrated on long-range offensive strategy. Over the past year, Red subs have been sighted in strength for the first time in the Mediterranean and the Philippine Seas...