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...hold his own in such a professional household he trained for medicine and then switched to law. He practiced law desultorily, but much preferred to haunt the artists' cafés of Milan. In one of them, while sitting on a barrel with his feet in a basin of white wine, Baj (pronounced buy) met a painter named Sergio Dangelo. He dropped the law, took up art full time, and joined Dangelo in forming something called the "Nuclear Movement" in painting...
...conceived in 1630 by Architect Giovanni Bernini, and built more than 100 years later, chiefly by Nicola Salvi. Hollywood added to the fountain's fame with its Three Coins in the Fountain, and Rome's moviemakers did their bit by dunking Anita Ekberg in its great marble basin for a high-voltage, low-décolletage scene in La Dolce Vita...
Callahan intends to fill up 11 acres of the River across from Magazine Beach, and several engineers have indicated that such action may lower considerably the level of water in the Charles basin and in the river itself as it flows past Harvard...
...mass transportation, aid to education and schemes for aiding the employment of youth. But his State of the Union message made bows to all of these, promised more specific details in later messages to Congress. The President also urged the creation of a domestic Peace Corps-a catch-basin for idealism at home (see EDUCATION...
...months there was talk of an impending divorce between Belgium's tall, handsome ex-King Leopold, 61, and his wife Liliane, 46. But when Leopold returned from a zoological expedition to the Amazon basin, Liliane, handsome as ever, was at the airport to meet him. Dropping his royal reserve for once, Leopold later issued a 414-word statement denouncing "those infuriating and scandalous rumors." His wife, he said, had stood by him "with devotion and tenderness for better and for worse. Thanks to her I found again my family hearth...