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Beneath a midnight Mediterranean sky, French customs agents last week approached the shrimp boat Caprice des Temps (Whim of Time) off the Riviera coast. The owner, a 58-year-old fishing-fleet operator named Marcel Boucan, refused to answer a radio order to cut his engines, so the agents fired shots across the vessel's bow and boarded it. Boucan frantically threw mysterious papers overboard and, while being taken back to port, slipped over the side. The next morning he was recaptured, exhausted, near the walls of Marseille's harbor fortress...
Resort Towns. A new nobility of economic planners has been provided with government funds to oversee development outside the capital. The results are visible, for example, in rapidly expanding port facilities at Dunkirk and Le Havre. Nowhere has life changed so much as along the western Riviera, where builders are hard at work on Fos-sur-Mer, a new port that will provide entry to a vast inland shipping route. By 1980, when dredging work along the Rhone and Rhine rivers is completed, vessels will be able to reach the North Sea from the Mediterranean via Fos, thus avoiding...
...points along the same stretch of Mediterranean coastline, government-built resort towns are partially complete. Over the past year they have attracted 600,000 visitors to accommodations ranging from trailer parks to deluxe hotels, and by 1980 the tourist load is expected to triple, equaling that of the "old" Riviera east of Marseille...
Wealthy Europeans and Americans built tens of thousands of fancy villas along the 200-mile coastline between Marseille and the Italian border, turning much of the Riviera into a private playground. To keep out trespassers, these "beach barons" erected high fences, stone walls and barbed wire, often patrolled by vicious guard dogs...
...translated into more than 60 languages, sold more than 20 million cop ies. In 1955 he made an expedition to Easter Island, 2,350 miles west of Chile, and another bestseller, Aku-Aku, resulted. But then he bought a 13th century terra cotta chateau above the Ital ian Riviera and settled down to a comfortable life of sun-kissed scholarship. Had Thor Heyerdahl become adventurer emeritus? Not quite...