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Even now she sometimes wears a ponytail, and age has only crispened that aquiline, no-nonsense visage. But in a game dominated by youth, Evert, 34, has become the matron saint. Entering this year's Open, which she said would be her adieu to the big time, she all but renounced any chance to win. She is being judged, and is judging herself, by a different standard: the grace of her departure. Like all great athletes, she has not so much succumbed to the ravages of time as allowed its passage to burnish her achievements into legend...
...Nazi occupation. The Parisians responded with wild flight. With cars, ( bicycles, baby carriages, nearly 2 million of them (some 65% of the city's population) choked the roads to the south. "I fly over the black road of interminable treacle that never stops running," author-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote of watching refugees from his plane. "Where are they going? They don't know. They are marching toward a ghost terminus which already is no longer an oasis...
...football games and everything else from cards and craps to flies landing on sugar cubes. Gipp seldom attended class and only occasionally graced football practice. The sentimental writer Red Smith, a Notre Dame man himself, used to refer to the great dead hero as "the patron saint of eight-ball pool...
...weeks he had been living in the tranquil priory of Saint-Francois in Nice. Then one morning last week, police swooped down and arrested Paul Touvier, 74, the intelligence chief of the Lyons militia during the Nazi Occupation. Twice after World War II, Touvier was sentenced to death for collaborating with the Nazis and torturing and executing French Resistance members. He escaped and stayed hidden until the statute of limitations expired in 1967. In 1971 Touvier received a presidential pardon. Two years later Touvier was charged again, this time with crimes against humanity, to which the statute does not apply...
...Touvier case has raised embarrassing questions. Police followed his trail through several Catholic monasteries. Saint-Francois is run by right- wing followers of Monsignor Marcel Lefebvre, the schismatic bishop excommunicated last year. Asked Richard Wertenschlag, Grand Rabbi of Lyons: "How could ecclesiastical institutions give cover to one who committed crimes against humanity...