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...Fish Men Discover a 2,200-year-old Greek Ship." The author was a Frenchman named Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who in 1943 had helped to invent the Aqualung--the precursor of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba)--and used it to excavate a vessel at the bottom of the Mediterranean near the island of Grand Congloue. "That opened the door to underwater exploration for the modern day," says Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, the venerable publication of the National Geographic Society, which has since financed many undersea missions by Cousteau and others. In 1959 Cousteau invented the first small...
...Exupery also managed a death that was both heroic and mysterious. At 44, he had won permission to fly photoreconnaissance missions over his native France. On July 31, 1944, he took off from an Allied base in Corsica and never returned. He may have been forced down in the Mediterranean by two German fighter planes. No wreckage or remains were ever found...
...decade ago, Eurocommunism seemed an idea whose time had come. A new breed of Mediterranean Marxists preached a brand of Communism that renounced revolution, espoused democracy and rejected Soviet domination. Politicians of both the right and left fretted that Eurocommunism was about to transform the political scene. Western observers feared during the 1976 parliamentary election campaign in Italy that the Communists would get enough votes to force the ruling Christian Democrats into the "historic compromise" coalition. The Communists fell just short...
...terrorist threat will keep McKee from visiting Rome, Athens, and islands off the Mediterranean coast as she had planned. "It bothered me at first, but there's really nothing I can do about it," she says. Like Dostart and his his roommates she now figures that even if sheand her parents had considered Rome and Athenssafe, time constraints might have prevented herfrom making stops at these cities...
Despite some tender pillow talk and David's willingness to follow Catherine to the hairdresser, The Garden of Eden is not the work of a secret quiche eater. Catherine's urges do not come naturally to David. His women are part of the external world, like the baking Mediterranean sun and the bracing sea. As always in Hemingway, those externals are observed with a meticulous objectivity that conveys loneliness. There are also many self-conscious passages on the writer's solitary struggle. For example: "It is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better...