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...number only about 2,000 in all of France, have been relatively inactive on the Cóte d'Azur so far. There was no solid evidence of a connection between the Maoists and a rash of forest fires that broke out along the full length of the Riviera last week. Nonetheless, a number of resort owners met at Cannes to form a security force. In addition, Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin reinforced his riot police at the major resorts. His aim, he says, is to turn the Maoists' hot summer into "a cold summer, in a shady jail...
Compartments for Cardinals. That is just what has been done abroad. Americans who travel overseas marvel at the swift, efficient and inexpensive nationalized railroad service they encounter. In France, the Paris-Marseille-Riviera express made 182 trips in a three-month period last winter and was late a total of one minute and a half. Japan's 125-m.p.h. "bullet train" between Tokyo and Osaka is the technological wonder of the Eastern world...
From a window in the Riviera resort of Hyeres, Mellie (Marlene Jobert) sees a stranger carrying a red airlines bag. He looks too creepy to be anything but a sex deviate; sure enough, he breaks into her home and rapes her. When he lingers on, she drops him with twin blasts from a double-barreled shotgun, throws his body into the sea and puts his watch and wallet in the furnace. She does not tell her husband Tony, a pilot who has the grace to be in flight while she is being pursued by a grinning, hard-eyed investigator named...
...sorted out in the Yard in a caste system. The floor I lived on in Thayer there was only one real upper-class type-Lewis Jefferson Proctor [St. Paul's]. His father was head of American Telephone for South America. He died in 1958 of sheer decadence on the Riviera...
Apparently he was unaware that he was often barely tolerated. The man whom the world saw as the ultimate boulevardier seemed to his son remote and incapable of friendship. Young Michael spent his early years shuttling around Europe-London, the Riviera, boring resort hotels in Austria. Early in World War II, he was clapped into a Canadian boarding school and did not see his father again until 1945, when the family was united in Manhattan. Then boredom in Austria was replaced by stultification in Hot Springs...