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Married. Boris Spassky, 38, former international chess champion; and Marina Stcherbatcheff, 30, a secretary at the French embassy in Moscow; he for the third time, she for the first; in Moscow. When Spassky first announced his intention to marry the pretty French-born daughter of Russian emigres, Soviet bureaucracy said she would have to leave the Soviet Union by Sept. 30. Anxious to avoid an international scandal on the eve of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's October visit to the U.S.S.R., Russian authorities relented. Said Spassky: "Now I have an extra queen...
Died. Marcel Grandjany, 83, French-born harpist and professor at the Juilliard School of Music; in Manhattan. Grandjany's gifts as performer and composer helped raise the harp from a musical decoration to a full-fledged solo instrument. Among his compositions: The Colorado Trail, Children's Hour, and Fantasy for Harp...
...stations of all denominations located in the mountains, high plains and jungles that cover East Africa. Upon receiving a call, the service dispatches a plane to one of more than 300 airfields-some of them little more than dirt tracks-spotted around the countryside. Dr. Anne Spoerry, 55, a French-born general practitioner who pilots her own plane and has covered 336,000 miles since she joined the service in 1965, has had some peculiarly African experiences. On one flight, her plane collided with a vulture, which damaged the engine cowling; while landing, she once narrowly missed hitting a giraffe...
...impossible task. Perhaps the most useful and pleasantest way to consider the whole is in conversation-preferably with a multilingual, polymathic scholar. Last week TIME correspondents discussed the world of arts and ideas with two of Europe's leading intellectuals: Dr. George Steiner, a French-born American thinker who is currently a fellow of Cambridge's Churchill College; and Dr. Joachim Kaiser, principal critic for Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung...
...practice has been preserved in some parts of the world, not as a punishment but as a macabre stunt or commemorative rite. The latest to undergo the ordeal of the cross is a French husband-and-wife team of yoga practitioners in the Dominican Republic, who offered themselves up in the cause of world peace and to demonstrate the "power of mind over matter." French-born Mystic Patricio Tamao, 33, who is the founder of his own philosophy, Tamaoism, was the first on the cross, which was on the patio of a Santo Domingo hotel. Tamao, who planned to stay...