Word: bittel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This summer, 21 of the Polish frescoes, together with carvings and graffiti from Faras, are being shown for the first time in Western Europe at West Germany's Villa Hügel in Essen. They have caused something of a sensation in artistic circles. Says Professor Kurt Bittel, head of the West German Archaeological Institute: "The miracle of Faras is a triple one: that these works were found, that they could be preserved, and that they existed...
Putting them all together in Manhattan, with the help of Researcher Madeleine Bittel Richards, was Associate Editor Richard Seamon, who has written more than two dozen cover stories, including TIME'S fast-closing cover on downed U-2 Pilot Francis Powers (TIME, May 16) and the one on Admiral Harry Felt (TIME, Jan. 6). Dick Seamon, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, has an intimate knowledge of the RB-47 flyers' procedures and perils: during World War II, after training in radar and electronics at Harvard and M.I.T., he piloted a photo-mapping PB4Y...
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