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...Japan the most expensive in the world. Frontage on the gilded Ginza shopping thoroughfare in central Tokyo sells for as much as $18 million per acre v. top prices of about $9,000,000 in choicest Manhattan, $6,500,000 in San Francisco, $4,000,000 on the French Riviera. Even in exurbia, 1½ hours away from downtown Tokyo, the going rate is $38,000 an acre. A three-bedroom suburban home that would rent for $250 a month in the U.S. can easily command $500 to $2,000 a month outside Tokyo...
...engine and cost about $4,400-a price that places it in direct competition with Ford's Thunderbird, which still dominates the luxury sports-car market. To absorb some of the Holiday's development costs, G.M. is making many of its parts interchangeable with the 1966 Buick Riviera, which could be adapted to front wheel drive at a later date...
...girls on the French Riviera have been slinging the hole-happy stuff over their bikinis for years. Only this season, however, did it cross to native shores to fill in the spaces exposed by plummeting necklines and high-riding shorts, offering new methods of engineering that open vistas in unexpected places. Cole of California used fishnet to screen a deep isosceles plunge ($26), Rose Marie Reid to add a jeweled lace topping to a maillot ($50), while Designer Bill Blass took a big breath, and a giant step, left gaps where gaps had never before been left, and let flesh...
...Angels is a flimsy French drama about a pair of roulette addicts. Amidst some properly bleak and disenchanted views of Riviera gaming rooms, Director Jacques Demy earnestly studies the squirmings of compulsive gamblers, one of whom, grace a Dieu, is Jeanne Moreau...
...being the least welcoming people on the Continent." The number of foreign tourists has increased-from 5,000,000 in 1958 to an estimated 6,500,000 this year-but they have cut their average stay from six days to only three, and spending has dropped 20% along the Riviera. To save on hotel and restaurant bills many visitors took the do-it-yourself approach to tourism, camping out in their own gear. At the same time, "Le Boom" enabled 10 million Frenchmen to travel abroad, almost half of them to Spain. Result: France's foreign-exchange surplus from...