Word: riviera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flood victims in the French Riviera town of Fréjus (TIME, Dec. 14), Artist Pablo Picasso donated two of his still-life paintings for auctioning in Paris, appealed to all painters to follow suit by giving a canvas for the cause...
Five miles above the quiet Riviera town of Fréjus (see map), French engineers five years ago built Malpasset Dam. A graceful, sweeping arc of concrete 738 ft. long and 197 ft. high, it backed the Reyran River into a lake six miles long and two miles wide. Only 22½ ft. thick at its base and 5 ft. at the top, the Malpasset was, French technicians boasted on its completion, the world's thinnest major dam. It was to prove an unhappy boast...
...France's southern shore in 1944. The golden CÓte d'Azur begins at Fréjus' beach, and this year the dry summer had brought a record in tourists and a good wine crop. But for five days torrential rains had lashed the Riviera, and the lake behind the Malpasset Dam was ominously rising...
...great syrupy sludge of mud coated the valley. National Route 7, the main highway from Paris to Nice and Cannes, ended in a mangle of smashed houses and trees and trucks. A mile of the main railroad tracks linking Paris with the Riviera was uprooted. Most appalling of all was the human toll: at week's end, 323 dead, another 200 still missing...
...storm-brewing. But who was the shadowy Mrs. J.R., accused by Tina of being Onassis' great and good friend on a semi-global scale over a seven-year period? To some newsmen, it was all Greek, but others soon zeroed in on an American, a handsome, blonde Riviera expatriate, J. (for Jeanne) Schley R. (for Rhinelander), 34, divorced in 1952 from Manhattan Landynast T. (for Thomas) J (for Jackson) Oakley Rhinelander. To Jeanne, self-described as "a devoted friend" of both "Ari" and Tina, it was all "a blow." In her villa, outraged Jeanne got good...