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...monetary system. Foreign government leaders, many of whom were on vacation, went scrambling to salvage some order out of the enveloping chaos. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau broke off a holiday cruise off Yugoslavia and returned to Ottawa to assess the impact of the Nixon moves. On the French Riviera, French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou cut short his vacation to hurry back to Paris for emergency meetings. In Tokyo, hasty phone calls summoned traveling Japanese Cabinet members back...
...route to an ice cream parlor in Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera one day last summer, a doctor's wife named Josette Varinet, 30, discovered that she and her two children were taking the wrong route. Mme. Varinet began backing her Peugeot out of the one-way street when suddenly a big black car drove in, and its owner began assailing her with a wordy sermon on the failings of female drivers. To that Josette replied: "Je vous emmerde," an excremental expletive...
...must have been hot in Portofino on the Italian Riviera when Jacqueline Onassis-clad in only a red T shirt and white slacks-shopped with her daughter, Caroline Kennedy. After Husband Aristotle bought her a few souvenirs and gifts for the kids, they all headed back to the Christina for more cruising...
...Ivory Coast, Developer Moshe Mayer is now busy with a $2 billion complex including hotels, marina, animal park, convention hall and housing area for 60,000 that by 1980 will transform a 10,000-acre jungled seaside strip south of Abidjan into "the African Riviera" (TIME, March 15). Mayer says he has invitations from 20 other African nations, including Kenya and Madagascar, to build similar tourist centers or hotels. Architect and City Planner Thomas Leitersdorf has planned new housing and roads for the Riviera project in such a fashion as to provide a gentle transition to urban life...
GEORGE STRONG Riviera Beach...