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...Pete" is. approximately, the English John Dough, and in the 1960 era of new prosperity he knows where he wants to spend his holiday money. Last week in Blackpool a Lancashire wool merchant summed up the average Englishman's loyalty to the place. He had been to the Riviera last year and had his fill of incomprehensible French entertainment and Chateaubriand with sauce bearnaise. "We couldn't get fish 'n' chips." he murmured, "and the steak was all covered with bloody glue...
COCO became a fashion herself. Returning from the Riviera to Paris, her bronzed face launched the suntan vogue. One day she went to the races in a man's trench coat. The next week trench coats were the thing to wear...
...coast running from torrid Algiers west to Chenoua Beach, bungalows and cabanas were crowded with sun worshipers, Moslem and European alike. On the coastal roads autos moved bumper to bumper with only an occasional armored car to serve as a reminder that this was Algeria and not the French Riviera. Then a wisp of smoke rising on the mountain behind Chenoua Beach raised a forest fire alarm. After beach police rushed off to the fire, F.L.N. terrorists went to work...
...seemed settled when the lame-duck Cabinet members presented themselves at the palace to resign. President Chehab had a surprise for them. He announced his own resignation, effective immediately. "I have done my duty; my conscience is clear," he declared, and talked of a long vacation on the Riviera...
...trained Chehab really long so badly for the Riviera? Fellow officers recalled that, as a general, he had more than once "resigned" to get his way. Now he seemed in no hurry to appoint Salam to the coveted premiership. And after last week's rousing demonstration, every Lebanese politician knew that, whoever the Premier and whoever the Cabinet members. Fuad Chehab had proved that he was the country's indispensable...