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...long with its two 150-yd. wings, had 2,000 rooms and could house 1,000 noblemen with their retinues. In 1687, Louis felt the need for a bit of privacy and built the Grand Trianon, a modest 72-room hideaway of pink and green marble, a mile and a half away. That edifice, in turn, inspired the Petit Trianon, a 30-room cottage that Louis XV built for his mistress Madame de Pompadour in 1762. When Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette fell victim to the French Revolution in 1789, so did Versailles: its paintings were carted off, its tapestries...
DEATH REVEALED. Marty Hoey, 30, Washington State mountaineer who was trying to be the first American woman to conquer Mount Everest; of injuries in a fall on May 15; in the Himalayas, 2,600 ft. short of the 5½-mile-high summit. Hoey was the only woman on a team scaling the rarely climbed Great Couloir of the mountain's north face...
...died is always news, but death in auto racing never is; it is an expected part of the game. At Indianapolis, 49 drivers have won the 500-mile race, and 62 people have died there. One-quarter of all the racers who have competed at Indy since 1911 have been killed somewhere or other in a race car. Sportswriter Jim Murray's bitter line years ago hangs on still, like the last note of taps: "Gentlemen, start your coffins...
Meanwhile, top priority for British antisubmarine aircraft and frigates last week was to locate Argentina's diesel-powered Santiago del Estero. The World War II sub, built by the U.S., has a 12,000-mile range and poses an unnerving threat to the liners Canberra...
...placed sixth in the half mile at Nationals," McCurdy said "But I was so disgusted by losing to five other guy that I didn...