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Instead, only 6½ years after fundraising began, the $12 million museum floats on the tar like a battleship on a 600-ft. by 250-ft. concrete raft. Scraps of canvas make the ship sail. A fortnight ago, the museum's chief art donor, California Entrepreneur Norton Simon, acquired Rembrandt's Titus (TIME, March 26) for a staggering $2,234,400. Eventually it will go to the new museum-the brightest star in a firmament of fine art valued at some $35 million...
...next ten years. Wilson postponed an even bigger decision: whether to scrap development of the British TSR-2 strike bomber in favor of General Dynamics' F-111 (originally TFX) fighter. But he grumbled loudly at the "prodigious" cost of the British plane -as much as a prewar battleship...
...chunk by chunk. In October 1944, he landed on Leyte; three months later he was back on Luzon; and 25 days after that, he claimed Manila. Cried MacArthur: "On to Tokyo!" On Sept. 2, 1945, as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, he accepted the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo...
...days there was little that could be done for him, and even less that he could do for himself, as he lay in an overheated room, apprehensive and overly aware of all that was going on around him. The hospital sounded like the lower decks of a battleship. The corridors were a babel of squawk boxes, counterpointed by the gun-mount rumble of food carts, the depth-charge banging of slammed doors. Though some of his nurses were ministering an gels, Hodgins laments the modern hospital's chronic shortage of hands. "In the old days," he says, "a patient...
...postwar Germany, U.S. cars were derisively dubbed Strassen Kreuzer-street cruisers-because of their king size. Last week in Manhattan, Germany's Daimler-Benz showed off a new auto that is not just cruiser size but more like a battleship. Spanning 20½ ft. from stem to stern, The Grand Mercedes 600 is the world's longest auto. It is also one of the lowest: less than 5 ft. high, it has the low-slung lines of a dachshund. Boasting all the latest engineering innovations (disk brakes, adjustable pneumatic suspension system, fuel-injection 300-h.p. engine...