Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confrontation and which could esca late into a nuclear holocaust. I am sure the President has carefully contemplated the danger of permitting the United States to be bogged down in an endless war in Asia, thus leaving the Soviets free to work their machinations in Latin America, in the Mediterranean basin, in Europe, and perhaps elsewhere. Vacuums are tempting-they might be irresistibly so. We are closing the breach in the Communist world. We should minimize our involvement rather than maximize it. No one is suggesting that we duck tail and run. It's a question of priorities...
...week, and was well paid for his work. A man with expensive appetites, he was living far beyond his $14,000 newspaper salary, and in addition had transferred thousands of dollars to his twin brother Ali in London. The end came when Amin rented a summer villa overlooking the Mediterranean at Alexandria. Police planted intelligence agents among his servants, closed in when Odell, who had rented a villa nearby, showed up for lunch fortnight ago. Amin was jailed, and Odell was questioned for an hour, forced to turn over what police claim was Amin's last report-20 pages...
...long loved southern France, and some, like Picasso, have become year-round residents. Usually their paintings were shipped north to the big art galleries of Paris; only in recent years has a host of small museums displaying works by resident greats in a leisurely ambiance sprung up along the Mediterranean. Most recent and best is the small but elaborate Maeght museum (see color), which opened last summer on the French Riviera, has already drawn over 80,000 visitors...
Strolling Ghosts. Tucked away in the hills high above the Mediterranean at Saint-Paul-de-Vence and commanding one of the most breathtaking views on the entire coast, the new museum is a gift to France from Paris Art Dealer Aimé Maeght (rhymes with jog). Having made a fortune in the postwar boom selling the works of Chagall, Miró, Kandinsky, Braque and Giacometti, Maeght decided to enlist his artists' aid in building a showcase for their paintings and sculptures. Thus Giacometti was able to help plan the ideal courtyard for his wasted bronze figures, which today...
Harvard NROTC midshipmen who had counted on spending the summer cruising around the Mediterranean may instead find themselves drydocked in Boston...