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...Germans occupied the palace during World War II, and afterward visitors discovered white mushrooms growing on the cold, damp walls and rain dripping from the frescoed ceilings onto the parquet floors. The Rockefeller family again spearheaded a fund-raising drive. Today more than 60 rooms are open to the public, and fully half of the palace has been restored. Total price tag since 1950: about $75 million. Versailles now ranks as France's third biggest tourist attraction; only the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Eiffel Tower are more popular...
...assembly's action reinforced many campesinos' fears that the rightists are out to halt the land-reform program altogether. One deputy who voted for the winning motion acknowledged as much afterward when he said that the next step could be to break up the large cooperatives formed under Phase I of the agrarian reforms. Labor organizations joined with the campesinos last week in a call for a general strike to protest the assembly's decisions...
...community of Vila Viçosa 90 miles east of Lisbon, in a stronghold of grass-roots Communism where dirt-poor farm laborers seized estates in the wake of the 1974 revolution, the Pontiff issued a rousing call for "fundamental human rights" and better living conditions for rural workers. Afterward, he stepped out into the crowd, pushing through a tight police cordon to shake hands. At one point he beckoned to a cluster of men and women wearing broad-brimmed straw hats and blankets draped over their shoulders. Security broke down completely. John Paul was engulfed...
After eleven seasons, with American Basketball Association championships behind him and N.B.A. championships eluding him, Erving still plays for joy and radiates it. "You should see him at practice," McMahon said. "He always is ready to play a rookie one-on-one afterward. There is nobody like him for coming to play every night, except Bird. Bird is that way." If more were that way-not that good, just that way-the season might not seem so long. -By Tom Callahan
...cultural event, with the participating nations displaying the ceremonies of battle the way some birds display tail feathers, as rituals of violence minus the blood. For the spectators there was more than enough to be amused by, including the Falklands themselves, unknown to the world before April 2 and afterward an anthology of jokes about penguins, sheep and kelp. Those not giggling were celebrating. Argentine children waved flags; British children waved flags. Except for mothers, who know better, and politicians, who ought to, almost everyone was certain that this was going to be oh such a lovely war, so different...