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From May 26, when the stock market reached its low of 631.16 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, through last week, the following stocks ade the greatest gains on the major exchanges, according to a compilation by Manhattan's Harris, Upham...
...ade that Florence's Palazzo Capponi presents to the street is tawny and severe. Unlike Germanic peoples, the Italians built their palaces with austere exteriors, content to have the opulence displayed within. But for the past 15 years, the Palazzo Capponi has defended from public gaze a greater treasure than most. Locked up there was the collection amassed by the late Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi. No outsider knew exactly what it contained and the only people with access to it were the dead count's heirs and a handful of their friends...
...design will provide new exhibition space for the overcrowded American wing and the European collections. On the park side, the present hodgepodge façade of Romanesque, Venetian Gothic, bare brick and nondescript modern will be concealed behind windowless walls or veiled by vast expanses of glass. A final judgment will have to wait until the time, still at least ten years off, when the project is completed. But some critics already feel that the new park façade is blank and featureless; it seems more appropriate to a factory than to one of the world's greatest...
Opinions are mixed also on Roche's overhaul of the monumental classical Fifth Avenue façade, designed in 1896 by Richard Morris Hunt, the leading U.S. architect of his time. Roche has got rid of the wooden outhouse-like box added to cut down drafts at the main entrance, and is providing a spacious, three-tiered staircase flanked on both sides by formal plazas and a serried row of fountains set in reflecting pools. More controversial is his plan to replace Hunt's grand staircase inside with two escalators and a passageway in order to increase...
...tangle of ground-level debris. Behind its façade of gentility, the house had become a laboratory of violence, its products designed to destroy the stable society that its elegance symbolized. When three explosions shattered the dwelling, Wilkerson's daughter Cathlyn, 25, and an unidentified young woman emerged dazed and trembling from the crumbling, burning ruins. Having donned a neighbor's old clothes, the pair disappeared before police came. At the end of last week, they were still missing. ∙ In the ruins, police found 60 sticks of dynamite, 30 blasting caps and four dynamite-packed pipes...