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...Michele Chevalier, a $300-a-month subway worker in Paris, was deserted 15 years ago and left with three young girls to raise. When her unmarried 16-year-old daughter Marie-Claire became pregnant, Mme. Chevalier resolved that an abortion was essential. Neither she nor her own mother had been married, said Mme. Chevalier, and she had no desire to force Marie-Claire "to relive my martyrdom...
...would welcome a rematch "if the prize pool is high enough." Meanwhile, back in New York, Chess Master Shelby Lyman mused over his own sudden stardom after acting as host for National Educational Television's coverage of the Reykjavik tournament. Lyman, who until recently lived in a $50-a-month cold-water flat and who earned only about $4,000 for his video stint, figures to make about $100,000 or so this year from books, lectures and personal appearances. Said he happily: "Now a top chess teacher will be able to command what a top psychiatrist gets...
...Navajos in Ramah, N. Mex., and both Indians and Eskimos in Alaska. Unlike Foxfire's originators, who began with $400 raised from parents and friends, the other groups can obtain money and guidance from IDEAS, Inc., a Washington-based educational foundation that has hired Wigginton as its $425-a-month adviser. Wig has settled permanently in Rabun Gap, where he is building a log cabin home. Now 29, he summered in the town as a child with his father, who was a professor at the University of Georgia, then came back after graduating from Cornell...
Impressed with the Garibaldi resort's $5,000-a-month profit, the Brazilian government is lending Santini more than $2 million to build similar complexes near Rio, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Recife and Brasilia. Making money, though, was not on Santini's mind when he began his quixotic quest to put Brazilians on skis. "My real ambition," he says, "is to see a Brazilian ski team in the Olympics-even if they finish last...
...Republican payroll was James W. McCord, Jr., 53, the $1,209-a-month chief security coordinator and electronics expert of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. (In the best Mission: Impossible tradition, he was promptly disavowed by Mitchell and fired.) He had retired in 1970 as a CIA security specialist and been recommended to the Republicans by Al Wong, a Secret Service officer...