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Abidjan, The Ivory Coast--The Ivory Coast has had the same government since independence, one of the few African countries to exhibit such stability. This has encouraged investment, especially by the French and the Swiss, who would like to see a tropical Riviera spring up along the coast. So far, they have built the most beautiful hotel I've ever seen. It's called the Hotel Ivoire, and comes equipped with a shopping arcade full of small local businesses, a casino, a convention center, four tennis courts, a pair of swimming pools, a nine-hole golf course...
Born in 1903, the only child of idle-rich Edwardians ("many people were richer, there can have been few who were idler"), young Clark basked off the Riviera on the new yacht his father bought more or less annually. The Clarks had the sort of wealth to maintain on their estate a nine-hole golf course complete with pro, even though neither parent played the game. The boy's only sport was walking about the family bogs soliloquizing, a practice he claimed prepared him for television...
Onassis, say associates in Athens, promised Jackie both his villa on the French Riviera and a hacienda in Mexico. But Christina will surely take over the family's regal penthouse on Avenue Foch in Paris and the 500-acre Skorpiós; the day after the funeral, she took command of the 325-ft. yacht that bears her name by informing the captain and crew that their jobs were all secure...
...deep freeze. Divorced for several years, they are each on second honeymoons, having married two dolts from dullsville. All Coward plays are divided between two sets of people-bright, neurotic sophisticates and starchy, phlegmatic dumbos. Amanda and Elyot and their spouses meet on the adjoining verandas of a French Riviera hotel, and in no time at all Amanda and Elyot are making the glottal sounds of love again...
...precarious assignments. The sketchy economic agreements that President Nixon struck during his own tour last month had to be translated into workable programs and, even more important, avenues had to be explored for easing the impact of higher Arab oil prices. The trip took Simon from the French Riviera to Cairo, Jerusalem and Jidda; he ran into somewhat less trouble in Arabia than on the pleasant beaches of the Riviera...