Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME correspondent covering the Korean war, the emerging and contentious continent of Africa, and of late, the France of De Gaulle and Algeria. Prendergast, who got to know Don Juan first in Portugal two years ago, had this time to find him first. The Pretender was somewhere in the Mediterranean aboard the yacht Saltillo. returning from the Athens wedding of his son Prince Juan Carlos to Princess Sophie of Greece. On a tip, Prendergast flew to the Spanish island of Majorca...
...Pretender to the Spanish throne, which he and his monarchist supporters are certain will be restored when Franco goes. Until that happens, he can only wait restlessly in self-imposed exile at Estoril, Portugal's glittering resort, or take the handsome yacht Saltillo for endless cruises in the Mediterranean-an embodiment of his country's impatience, and a symbol of the Spanish past that is desperately trying to move into modern Europe...
Even during the cruises, mail and radio reports flow out to the yacht. Last week, heading slowly back to Estoril from a trip through the Mediterranean, he paused briefly off Gibraltar to confer with two leaders of his council. He also stopped at Cartagena as guest of the local naval commander...
...fleeing Europeans seem determined to leave nothing to the Moslem inheritors of Algeria. The plumbing in abandoned homes was savagely broken; refrigerators were thrown into the Mediterranean; cars driven to the airport and docks were wrecked as a final gesture. In the cities of Algiers and Oran, Bone and Constantine last week, Europeans no longer greeted each other with "Bonjour, comment ca va?" Now they say: "When are you leaving...
...deafeningly off cliffs and building walls. The accidents are spectacular. One year a driver ended up with his radiator embedded in the ticket office of Monte Carlo's railroad station, and in 1955 Italy's great Alberto Ascari drove his Lancia over the sea wall into the Mediterranean...