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LOUISE-FRANÇOISE DE BOURBON, bastard daughter of Louis XIV, built the Palais-Bourbon beside her lover's Hôtel de Lassay in order to be near him; her gardens were a favorite place to stroll. Today the Palais-Bourbon is the home of France's National Assembly, and the gardens in recent years have been a morning rendezvous for two unlikely figures. One was a watchful policeman cradling an automatic rifle. The other was Assembly President Jacques Pierre Michel Chaban-Delmas, 54, togged in a track suit. Under the eyes of his security guard, Chaban...
...sentimental favorite. His fellow Armenians kept their champion supplied with fresh cherries from home to bolster his diet and cheered him so boisterously at one point that authorities had to draw the curtains on the stage to allow the competitors to concentrate. Petrosian, who likes to stroll about or read the newspaper between moves in less important matches, slipped off to watch a hockey game between championship rounds, a practice unheard of for competing chess champions, who supposedly must keep their minds riveted to the board...
More Activity. As the spirit in the unit improved, the nurses began to prod the patients into greater activity. Many of them, it turned out, were well enough to do little chores for the nurses, socialize with one another, stroll to other parts of the hospital. In at least one instance, the unit's new joie de vivre exceeded all expectations. Walking into the room of a 39-year-old man, a nurse was amused to find that he had invited his wife to join...
London. Mitre Hotel, 28 miles outside London proper, at Hampton Court. Diners are advised to arrive early for an appetite-inducing stroll through the formal gardens of Hampton Court Palace across the street. Two restaurants, lavish wine cellar (stock valued at $125,000). Suggested entree: lobster à l'américaine (sauteed in butter, flamed with brandy and served on a bed of rice with its own lobster sauce). Or Dover sole, poached in cream sauce and Meursault, garnished with baby shrimps. The tab: about...
Demolition Teams. Weathered German pillboxes, part of Hitler's supposedly impenetrable "Atlantic Wall," are everywhere. In Ver-sur-Mer, at one end of the beach promenade, tourists stroll past a blockhouse that now serves as a signal station for fishing boats. A few blockhouses elsewhere have been converted into homes, chicken coops and storage sheds. All along the coast, demolition teams still roam the countryside searching for unexploded ammunition; every so often, when a big enough haul is accumulated, it is blown up on Omaha after the tide has come in. At Arromanches-les-Bains, snuggled between yellowish cliffs...