Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter S. Green, horticultural taxonomist at the Arnold Arboretum, said that he suspected the trees to be hybrids of the native American sycamore (also known as the buttonwood) and the Mediterranean species of plane tree. If they are, he said, "London plane would be a better name for them...
Nervous, introverted, Brassens does not savor the notoriety. Son of a Flemish bricklayer, he was raised in the Mediterranean village of Séte. He quit school before graduating and, at 18, worked at odd jobs, wrote poetry and bummed around the cafes. In 1952, friends took him to a tiny club run by Patachou, Paris' famed chanteuse, and goaded him into singing. One week later he was the sensation of Paris...
Then a yellow, 10-h.p. Renault opened Bonnard to rural beauty. He would motor through the countryside, stopping frequently to sketch. He fled Paris for Mediterranean country villas...
Marseille is the halfway house on the world's main route of illicit drug traffic. Crude morphine from the Middle East is smuggled into the tough, jaded Mediterranean port and converted to heroin. It is then sent to New York by clandestine carriers as diverse as diplomatic pouches and the Air France stewardess caught three years ago with the stuff in her bra. Balding little Louis Lavalette, chief of the police judiciare for Southern France, has long had a good hunch who was behind the operation: "Monsieur Jean" Cesari, a quick-witted courtly Corsican who, in 20 years...
Lying fat and silky beneath the Mediterranean sun, Beirut is an oasis of prosperity in the Arab Middle East...