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...closer, one frigid holdout has been Bulgaria. Now, the tiny Balkan nation is also thawing a bit. Last week Todor Zhivkov, 55, Premier of Bulgaria and the brisk, burly first secretary of its Communist Party, made his first official trip to Western Europe, spending three days on the French Riviera and three more in Paris with President Charles de Gaulle...
...Buick Riviera hardtop...
...architects decided that the 85,000-sq.-ft. Civic Plaza called for "an important piece of sculpture." Why not go right to the top, approach Picasso? Armed with models of the building and photographs of Chicago, Hartmann descended upon the artist's villa at Mougins on the French Riviera. Though Picasso had never been to Chicago-or, for that matter, to the U.S.-he delightedly recognized pictures of Carl Sandburg and Ernest Hemingway. "Mon ami Hemingway," he exclaimed, then explained that he had taught the novelist all about bullfighting. On subsequent trips, Hartmann captured Picasso's fancy with...
...mysterious code of the mysteriously well-connected, the shabby, fly-infested Hotel Tahiti in Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera is the place one goes to if one is too rich to bother with the Taj Mahal. Last week, amid the wandering beer barons and compliant courtesans, a newcomer dashed in and out in a bright succession of tight slacks and V-necked blouses, occasionally pausing to effulge a visitor with her smile, occasionally cutting out of the creepy joint in her baby-blue Ferrari...
...these new Columbuses have a particular need for sympathy. They come to the U.S. for serious discovery, for searching out the American character; as yet only a few of them, emulating Americans sunning on the Riviera or skiing in Switzerland, seek the vacationer's pleasures of summering in New England, fishing the Minnesota lakes, hiking through the California redwoods or luxuriating in a Florida hotel. Anticipating the crush of tourism that is to come, the U.S. must learn to recognize the foreign visitor and make him feel wanted and welcome. It should not be a difficult task...