Word: rivieras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taking place on the scene as well. Several junior Cabinet ministers and civil servants resigned, and the administration ground to near-standstill. Vietnamese army staff officers, anxious to come out on the winning side, sent greetings to Bao Dai, whom they expect to come back from the French Riviera as his country's "arbiter." There was much talk of the Premier's possible replacements: Phan Huy Quat (whom Diem considers a Fascist) and Ho Thong Minh (a former Defense Minister who quit rather than send the army against rebellious sects...
...situation Picasso will soon change. Two weeks ago he handed back his gingerbread Riviera house in 'Vallauris to his former wife, Franchise Gillot, and for 12 million francs bought a sunny, 13-room villa, La null overlooking Cannes, six miles from Communist Leader Maurice Thorez. Said Soviet-Admirer Picasso proudly: "For the first time in my life I will be a houseowner...
...well-armed troops of the Cao Dai, Hoa Hao and Binh Xuyen sects (long subsidized by the French) were out in coalition against Diem's national government, lobbing mortar shells into peasant villages to demonstrate their lethal potentialities. Hostile Vietnamese politicians in Europe were trying to persuade Riviera-loving Bao Dai, the absentee chief of state, to go home, fire Diem and make a few changes. French politicians were frankly telling Britons and Americans that they considered Diem unworthy of support, and sure to fall. In the French press, Diem was dismissed as a creature of the Americans, discredited...
...late Leopold II, great aunt of Belgium's current King Baudouin, mother of prosperous Businessman-Prince Louis Napo leon, 41, current Bonapartist pretender to the throne of France (as great grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest brother); of a heart ailment; in Nice, on the French Riviera...
Died. Fernand Point, 58, 300-lb., 65-inch-girthed prince of French restaurateurs, owner of the Restaurant des Pyramides, famed gourmets' oasis on the road between Paris and the Riviera; after long illness; in Vienne, France. Gourmet Point mercilessly ejected between-course smokers, got the Legion of Honor from General De Lattre de Tassigny and the Distinguished Service Medal from Britain's King George VI for his services as "ambassador of French gastronomy...