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When he died on the French Riviera in 1955, genial Paul Roux had no bank account and less than $100 in cash, but he was still able to leave behind a fortune. "This bouquet, this Colombe d'Or," he wrote to his son Francis, "I leave to you." The Golden Dove was his hotel-restaurant in tiny Saint-Paul-de-Vence-a restaurant like no other in the world...
Surrealistic Sailor. Cousteau and his wife Simone, a pert, green-eyed blonde with a lineage of French admirals, have a sprawling mansion in Monaco, a Paris apartment, a hideaway on the Riviera. "I have no home. My clothes are spread all over the world." says Cousteau cheerfully. Nearest thing to home is the bare cabin of the Calypso, where they may spend months at a time. Simone has become an expert Aqua-Lunger, tags along when Cousteau goes diving with their two sons, Jean-Michel, 21, and Philippe, 19. Cousteau declares that neither of them has ever gone swimming without...
...Cuba. It controls 10% of the country's economy and, with the expropriation of the big sugar estates, due next spring, it will soon control 50%. INRA owns Cuba's entire fishing fleet, runs the marketing of coffee, potatoes and tobacco, operates the $14 million Havana Riviera Hotel. Every egg in Cuba goes to market bearing INRA's purple stamp...
...flood victims in the French Riviera town of Fréjus (TIME, Dec. 14), Artist Pablo Picasso donated two of his still-life paintings for auctioning in Paris, appealed to all painters to follow suit by giving a canvas for the cause...
...great syrupy sludge of mud coated the valley. National Route 7, the main highway from Paris to Nice and Cannes, ended in a mangle of smashed houses and trees and trucks. A mile of the main railroad tracks linking Paris with the Riviera was uprooted. Most appalling of all was the human toll: at week's end, 323 dead, another 200 still missing...