Word: rivieras
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...Joey Maxim was guarding the door. "Can't drink," he mumbled. "I'm watching for hustling broads and big-time gamblers." Cannes? Monte Carlo? Vegas? Not quite. Freeport, in tiny Grand Bahama Island, is not even marked on many maps. Yet Freeport boosters already call it the Riviera of the Americas, vow that in time the bustling little town will become one of the Caribbean's biggest tourist and industrial centers...
...that "all differences have been settled." They seem to have been settled in her favor. In addition to $280,000 cash for some already-sold paintings, the agreement grants her royalties from some Maugham books as well as majority interest in his $1,000,000 villa on the French Riviera. Estimated value of the package: $1,400,000. Deaf, partially blinded by cataracts, and plagued by a fading memory, the aging author ignored doctor's orders, traveled to nearby Monte Carlo for a 90th birthday lunch. But while he had "no wishes to make" on his last birthday...
...plot, The Lost Shore is classically Saganesque: a young woman meets an elderly man in Paris, listlessly encourages his shy advances, and goes off to live with him on the Riviera...
This all-but-completed building is the first of 50-ranging in price from $125,000 to $165,000-which will make up a housing development for millionaires on the slopes of the Maritime Alps towering above the beaches of the French Riviera. The designer of all these houses at Castellaras-le-Neuf (New Castellaras) is a razor-tongued, 62-year-old French architect who scorns higher education, the construction industry, straight lines, and almost everything about architecture...
...Beleaguered Lady. At week's end, Mme. Nhu, repudiating all those stories of a villa on the Riviera and a bank account in Switzerland, told the press that she was without funds-except for money out of her reach in Viet Nam. She and Le Thuy moved into a four-room suite in the Bel Air mansion of Financier Allen Chase, who has vast investments in the Orient with TV Performer Art Linkletter, and was an occasional visitor at President Diem's palace...