Word: riviera
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Pablo Picasso roared with triumphant laughter. "I promised to have it done without any newsmen around, and for once I won," he said. Not until last week did it come out that on March 2 in the Riviera town of Vallauris the 79-year-old master had secretly married Jacqueline Roque, 35, his brown-haired longtime model...
...asked. "We are backward, and whatever we do shall never rise to the level of other peoples. Anyway, an educated population is difficult to govern." He grew increasingly impervious to Western influence, despite his summer visits to the royal villa at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera. By the time he took the throne in 1959, after the old King died at 74, Savang Vatthana seemed to have sunk into a torpor that could not be shaken by the fast-paced world around him. One Western diplomat, after a session with the King, said it was "like listening...
...most urgent areas requiring technical skills and help is the French Riviera. There are people on the Riviera walking around half naked, lacking shelter, and many still don't have their own boats...
...would be willing to drop everything this summer and go down to the Riviera to help them. We would live the way they do, eat the food they do, share their homes and show them that an American is not too proud to become one of them. We would be willing to instruct the Rothschilds in basic money problems. We could show Mr. Onassis how to build tankers cheaply out of plywood, and the Aga Khan how to use the sea as a source of food. We would instruct the women how to make the most of their Diors...
...Riviera folk have been kicked around by everybody. They are very suspicious of anybody who wants to change their customs. Yet, despite the fact that they cling to their old customs, we think that if we. as a member of the Peace Corps, could have just one summer with them on the Riviera, we could teach them the American way, and by living with them and showing them how we do things back home, they would be a happier and more contented people...