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...also owns extensive real estate in the south of France, including two Mediterranean islands. Bendor, the smaller one, has hotels, clubs and a convention hall. "Over 300,000 tourists take my boat to Bendor every year," brags Ricard. "That's more than the French Line transports across the Atlantic." The larger island, Embiez, is being developed, with yacht basins, luxury hotels, a casino and theater. Looking well ahead, Ricard grandly calls it "the resort of the year...
Position Is Important. There, beneath layers of clay and stones, were the unmistakable traces of a dwelling built by man on the shores of the Mediterranean 200,000 years ago. "It is certainly the oldest organized human dwelling yet dug up," says Sorbonne Prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan. France's fore most authority on paleontology, Profes sor Jean Piveteau, is equally emphatic. "It appears to show that prehistoric man already had a certain social organization 200,000 years ago." Before the Nice discovery, the oldest known man-made dwelling, dating from around 150,000 years ago, was unearthed in southern...
When, in 1840, Cunard established the first steamer passenger line in America, Boston was its natural choice of the terminus. In 1966, only 34 scheduled passenger ships will leave Boston Harbor and nearly all of these are cruises to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Gone too are the coastal shuttle boats to New York (remember Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8?) which did in a more leisurely age what the Logan shuttles do now. At every turn, Boston Harbor evokes its past, not in the solid romantic way of Beacon Hill, but in a mood of decline and acceptance...
...fastest climbers among the newer presidents, he is so active that his regents a few years ago ordered him to take a vacation. Recently, the Carnegie Corporation of New York gave him a three-month travel grant just to refresh himself-this week he is on the Mediterranean. Once a history professor, he moved to the Seattle post in 1958 from the deanship of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts...
...Madrid the joke was that the farmers of Almeria were no longer growing tomatoes but, rather, mushrooms. Another yuk had it that residents of the Mediterranean coast near Almeria had renamed their region "Costa Boom." It was something to laugh about all right-a missing American H-bomb...