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...Pastorini of Houston, 6 ft. 3 in., 216 Ibs., hurled 35 touchdown passes at Santa Clara, but was still relatively unknown outside California until the close of the 1970 season. Then he was named most valuable offensive player in the East-West Shrine game. Pastorini, who is also the Oilers' punter this season, got his chance last Sunday in the second half against the Kansas City Chiefs. Sent in to replace ineffective veteran Charley Johnson, Pastorini nearly handed the mammoth Chiefs their second upset in a row. Although he suffered two interceptions, he completed ten of 21 passes...
That this drab and peripheral institute should come to rival the Louvre as a shrine of French Impressionism seems inconceivable. But five years ago, an octogenarian named Michel Monet, driving back from a visit to his wife's grave in Normandy, collided with a truck and died. He was the son and only offspring of Claude Monet. When Monet père died in 1926, Michel inherited his collection and kept most of it in his secluded country house at Sorel-Moussel in Normandy. Nobody saw it for 40 years. Paintings were stuffed under beds, piled higgledy-piggledy...
South Korean President Chung Hee Park, 54, was so certain of victory in his bid for a third four-year term that while the vote was still being counted he journeyed to central Korea to give thanks at the shrine of the great 16th century Korean admiral, Yi Sun Sin. He was not being foolishly overconfident. When all the ballots had been tabulated, "Stone Face"-as the unsmiling Park is popularly known-had defeated his flamboyant opponent, Dae Jung Kim, 46, by 947,000 votes...
...Many more are likely to surprise: maud lin is the old vernacular form of (Mary) Magdalene, usually pictured weeping: Jules Leotard was a 19th century trapeze artist; mausoleum derives from the tomb of "the wily satrap" Mausolus, in Turkey; and tawdry comes from the cheap souvenirs sold at the shrine of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon princess who was called St. Audrey...
...Lourdes, home of the famed Catholic shrine, the basic issue was a controversial million-dollar 300-car garage that Incumbent Mayor Justin Lacaze planned to build a stone's throw from the site of Bernadette's vision. If he were removed from office, Lacaze threatened, ecclesiastical authorities might build a parking lot in a meadow on the other side of the grotto, enabling pilgrims to park, pray and go away without even passing through Lourdes (pop. 18,000). But townsfolk failed to fall for that and for the first time in history voted in an anticlerical Radical Socialist...