Word: rivieras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birds littering the promenades). Onassis is willing to sell out, but his price is the current one of $17 a share, up from $4 in 1960. Since the company's profits are actually declining (Monaco's tourists being increasingly of the one-day, white-chip variety), some Riviera brokers wonder whether the Onassis interest in the stock isn't the main reason why the price stays...
...Jacques-Yves Cousteau (TIME cover, March 28, 1960). He has stationed teams of divers at 80 ft. for one week. This week, in his third major project, six French divers in a spherical capsule will live for 15 days at 330 ft. in the sea off the Riviera resort at Cap Ferrat...
...such as his Monaco-born wife Yvonne Gallis, who died in 1957, and the Sardinian-born sculptor Costantino Nivola, for whose Long Island house he did murals. Mainly, he took refuge in solitude. For the past 15 years he summered in seclusion at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin-on the French Riviera. There he avoided autograph hunters in a 6-ft. by 15-ft. two-room cabin with a corrugated iron roof. Every day he sketched and exercised. Last week, while taking his twice-daily swim, he was seized by a heart attack and died before anyone could reach...
...Years to Wait. Algeco has been so successful that it has branched into other fields, invested $100 million of its shareholders' money in such tangibles as vending machines, trailer trucks and real estate. Last week Thomachot roved the Riviera for what Algeco calls the "investments of the future"-land that can be made into marinas, golf clubs and vacation villages. Algeco already manages a three-chateau country club outside Paris, an all-year golf course in Lavandou and a 1,500-yacht marina in the bay of Saint-Tropez. Not long ago, it began selling individual lots in France...
...unspoiled beaches in the world are to be found between two remote little towns named Antalya and Anamur on the south coast of Turkey. Framed against the Taurus mountain range that rises sharply to the north, and edged with orange, lemon, olive and fig trees, the 100-mile "Turkish Riviera" is every adventurer's midsummer daydream come true. It offers every variety of beach, from powdered sand to pebble to worn rocks. Here and there, cool mountain streams spill over steep cliffs into small, semitropical coves, and everywhere unexploited ruins lend an air of timeless tranquillity. Marble columns stand...