Word: trigano
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DIED. GILBERT TRIGANO, 80, vacation visionary who steered Club Med from beachfront commune to worldwide, multimillion-dollar resort chain; in Paris. The child of Algerian Jews, Trigano fought against the Nazi occupation of France alongside Gerard Blitz, who would later found the trail-blazing retreat business. After the war, Trigano wrote for the communist newspaper L'Humanit? before starting his 30-year career as helmsman of the company that delivered mai tais and tropical sunsets to the world's middle class...
DIED. GILBERT TRIGANO, 80, anti-Nazi propagandist who helped develop Club Med into a hedonistic waterside-resort chain; in Paris. A member of the French Resistance, he wrote for a communist paper after the war, later renting tents to the then rustic-themed vacation spots and eventually establishing them as the ultimate sybaritic destinations...