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...chateau itself, looming against the skies of Languedoc, looks like the scene of a Gothic melodrama. Turkeys roost on the veranda, and assorted dogs and cats prowl the courtyard where lilacs bloom. In an unburied coffin lies the late Baron Léonce de Portal, whose family title dates back seven centuries. The new baron, Jean-Louis de Portal, has been holding off the police at rifle point for more than six weeks...
...regatta also features teams from Trinity, Wesleyan, and Middletown High School, as well as a "paper entry" from Yale. However, for reason's known only to Kingman Brewster and William Sloan Coffin, the Yale squad is expected to pull a "no show...
...demonstrators, carrying a coffin which bore the A&P insignia, paraded through the Union and around the Yard. A flag bearing the inscription "Long Live the [UFW] Strike" led the procession, while a makeshift band played "Taps" and various other funeral marches...
Indeed it had been. A group of grave robbers-who apparently crossed the Bay of Biscay to the He d'Yeu by auto ferry-had spirited away the coffin containing the body of Marshal Philippe Petain, who was revered by Frenchmen for stopping the Germans at Verdun during World War I and later reviled for heading the collaborationist Vichy government during World...
...Petain's body was discovered. Roadblocks were set up on every highway leading from the Atlantic coast toward Verdun, where the culprits-who were presumed to be ultra-rightists-might be planning to bury the corpse. All trucks capable of hauling the 450-lb., zinc-lined oak coffin were stopped and systematically searched. Police also circled the sprawling cemetery at Douaumont, where workers dug up graves in which they thought the corpse might have been concealed...