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...outside his office in the palace to launch a great experiment. While thousands of his supporters cheered in the plaza below, he announced a unique undertaking: he intended to lead Chile along a democratic road to socialism. Last week the balcony still stood, although the palace was a smoldering ruin. So was Allende's Marxist vision for his country...
...hear Chrissie tell it, she will not have to sacrifice her personal life for too long. She insists that she intends to quit the pro game in three to five years, get married and have two to four chil dren. "Too long a tennis career can ruin a girl and harden her," she says. "Ten nis isn't the most important thing in my life. It's so materialistic. Marriage and family are more important, and so is religion - and love. I'd rather be known for being a girl than for being a tennis player...
SOMETHING OF THE same pattern attends the sale of sex. Beate Uhse has one of her famous "supermarkets" beside the ruin of the Memorial church, its posters offering "sunshine." Another shop in Europa Center displays whips beside the usual manuals and salves. Porno flicks, run continuously everywhere, including the once great screen palace "Metropol," with towers, great arches, and status in its stucco front...
...burglary-although Ervin misjudged Hoover's motives. In his earlier years as FBI director, Hoover allowed his agents to conduct such "bag jobs." But in his later years, the savvy bureaucrat was increasingly defensive about his image and considered such illegal acts too risky. If discovered, they would ruin his reputation...
...house was a gutted ruin rising gaunt and stark out of a grove of unpruned cedar trees," wrote William Faulkner about the Old Frenchman place in his 1931 novel Sanctuary. He might well have been thinking of Rowan Oak, the 1840 mansion he bought in 1930 in Oxford, Miss. Last week the University of Mississippi purchased the refurbished mansion from Faulkner's only daughter for part of a new cultural center. The study wall, with its manuscript chapter outlines of a Faulkner novel, is already a tourist attraction...