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Died. Jean-Baptiste Troisgros, 77, premier chef and bon vivant; of a heart attack while feasting; in Villefranchesur-Mer. Troisgros's Restaurant des Frères Troisgros in Roanne, 240 miles southeast of Paris, became a shrine for gourmets who came to sample his food and prejudices. "From 35 to 45, women are old," Troisgros once said. "Then the devil takes over and they're beautiful, splendid, maternal, proud ... When I see them my mouth waters...
...Societe des Bains de Mer, which owns both the casino and the Hotel de Paris, decided not to charge the sheiks for their rooms. "It was the least we could do," said an official. But Prince Louis de Polignac, chairman of the board of the S.B.M., was less sanguine about all the publicity. "Gamblers are like Swiss bankers," he said. "They love discretion. When a gambler gets unwanted publicity, he goes somewhere else...
Although the pardon saves Nixon from standing trial, it probably will not silence those who have been arguing that under a legal system promising equal justice for all, even a for mer President should be prosecuted if he is suspected of having broken the law. Moreover, few of Nixon's recent statements?as reported by friends?indicate any contrition. He has complained acidly, for example, that his former supporters in Congress "deserted" him when he needed them most...
Maze of Grass. Apart, that is, from earthwork artists. Unfortunately, the Newport show is short on earthworks -simply because land there costs too much. There is one piece by Richard Fleischner, in the grounds of Chateau-sur-Mer, that shows exactly the kind of unpretentious but intelligent relation that an earthwork can have to its environment: an undulating meander maze, a barely noticeable ripple on the lawn, covered with sod grass. It is low-key and perfectly appropriate in its site, harking back to a time when stately homes had garden labyrinths as a matter of course...
...court-appointed attorneys-Francis Beige and Frank Armani -made their disclosure during the trial of Robert Garrow, 38, a Syracuse bakery worker accused of murdering a student, Philip Domblewski, 18, last sum mer when Domblewski was camping in the Adirondacks. As the lawyers told it, in August, shortly after Garrow was flushed out of the mountains and arrested by a state police posse, he told Beige that he had raped and killed a woman in an abandoned mine shaft. Some three weeks later, Beige found the mine-and the body of Susan Petz, 21. She had been missing since July...