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...Liebling had this theory that Lousiana was the westernmost Mediterranean principality, what with its Byzantine politics, and all. If that's true, then Florida is perhaps the northernmost Caribbean principality--ruled by Holiday Inn instead of United Fruit. Subject to coups and missile shots and crazed Cubanos and Ed Gurney and Ed Gurney's ghost, where the great Northeast goes to die of the pulmonary diseases contracted in 40 years of living in the great Northeast, hospitable only to snakes and gators, the Miami Dolphins and Richard Petty, ah Florida--my Florida, home of Danny...
...pray that the next Pope has read TIME'S story, in the same issue, of vacationers packing the beaches and resorts along the Mediterranean, and does an about-face regarding birth control...
...water despite an overpowering stench. Tourist officials claim that most beaches are safe for bathing, but the French monthly magazine Science et vie reports that health officials have found 649 cases of "negligible" pollution, 361 cases of the "medium" variety and 23 cases of "strong pollution" at 138 Mediterranean locations, among them Antibes, Cannes and Nice...
Elsewhere in Mediterranean Europe, the beach crush is also intense. Despite all the worries about terrorism, Italy's more than 30,000 hotels are booked solid. Illegal tents have popped up all along the coast in spite of police fines of as much as $95. Prices have gone wild on Sardinia's ritzy Costa Smeralda, where, at one Porto Cervo nightspot, a dish of ice cream costs $7.50 and a dinner tab of $175 a person is paid without a wince. "Porto Cervo is just one big slot machine," says one bemused American tourist. "Nobody cares." Italian vacationers...
When will the Mediterranean madness end? On Sunday night, Sept. 3. So far, all attempts to alter the ironclad European attitude toward July and August vacations have failed. Meanwhile a recent poll commissioned by the Paris daily Le Figaro has shown that workers would rather have more vacation than the equivalent extra pay-something that has ominous implications for the Med in the future and also for anyone trying to get a hotel room on its shores...