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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...
...Falklands. Conditions guarantee an ugly, unpleasant engagement. The Falklands, cold, damp, desolate clumps of rock set in a storm-tossed ocean, are a dismal place for military operations. By last weekend the Argentine forces, composed in part of raw recruits conscripted only months be fore, were dug in on the mossy, treeless, windy wasteland. They were waiting for British troops, who, though surely more experienced and better trained, had al ready endured what must have seemed like an eternity of confinement and sea sickness on the violent South Atlantic. It appeared, as it has been from the first, a confrontation...
...Secretary. He called Lord Carrington a "duplicitous bastard." The Post was so proud of its sneak look at what it called the "unvarnished Haig" that it devoted about 300 sq. in. of one day's paper to Haig's "private and apparently candid pronouncements." It proved a damp squib...
...world that remains is dark, damp, and overgrown, peopled with primitive hunter-gatherers and horrible mutants. The language, too, has undergone a mutation: in Hoban's version of English reinvented from scratch, spelling, sentence-structure, and vocabulary have all taken on a childlike spontaniety and simplicity...
Despite the absence of injured stalwarts Buck Logan and Eric Schuler and sub-par performances by veterans Andy Regan, Peter Johnson and Bruce Weber, the harriers not only managed a victory in the damp, raw air, but "smashed the hell out of them," as coach Bill McCurdy said afterward...