Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always believed with Arthur that mankind is "on the whole more decent than beastly." After a two-month, coast-to-coast U.S. lecture tour in late 1963, he spoke with keen pleasure of the kindliness he encountered in America. When he left Manhattan last month for a Mediterranean cruise, he planned to write a book about his U.S. odyssey, hoped soon to complete a novel about Tristan and Isolde. But for White, as for his once and future king...
...first boat show I have ever been to," he confessed. And having let that out, he plunged full steam ahead. As a small boy he had capsized a good many more dinghies than most other small boys, and apart from "a bit of paddling" about the Mediterranean during the war. he really wasn't the least bit qualified to open the exhibit. In fact, he said, throwing it all up, "I get frightfully seasick...
YVES BRAYER-Wildenstein, 19 East 64th. Sixty-six oils, watercolors and drawings reflect the dizzying, dazzling light that never seems to set over the gaunt landscapes of the Mediterranean. First U.S. exhibition by this French traditionalist. Through...
...vacation villages), and has helped finance hotels for Pan Am's Intercontinental Hotels Corp. Besides his controlling or significant interests in two dozen other enterprises-the biggest machine-tool company in Brazil, supermarkets and mutual funds in Europe, a pipeline from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean-Edmond is a partner with the British Rothschilds in building both economy and luxury (up to $90 per day for a couple) resorts in Israel...
Concentrating Rain. Most of the Negev gets less than 6 in. of rain per year, and it usually comes in winter in short, sudden downpours. It does not sink into the hard ground; it pours into the dry wadies, sometimes foaming all the way to the Mediterranean. The best way to make practical use of this sort of rainfall is to concentrate the water as much as possible where it will do the most good-which is exactly what the Naba-taeans did in the Negev. The more Glueck studied their works, the more he admired their industry and engineering...