Word: chapelful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cabinet Candy. On a normal day, he rises at 7, breakfasts lightly on fruit juice, tea and dry toast, then retires to his private chapel for morning prayers. By 9 he is in his study, reading the Madrid newspapers and the official reports stacked high on his large mahogany desk. The calm does not last long. At midmorning the palace is invaded by Franco's seven grandchildren (ages one to 14). Trailed by their English nanny, they race down the Pardo's wide granite corridors, past six-foot honor guards and enormous Goya tapestries, and burst into...
...long driveway through fields full of pheasants leads to the 365-room Tudor mansion of Lancaster stone in the Lincolnshire countryside, 100 miles from London. Inside Harlaxton Manor, the glow of a 15-foot crystal chandelier reflects from marble floors in a 134-year-old room, once a Jesuit chapel. And on the great staircase, a leggy young blonde from Stanford University remarks: "Gee, nobody but nobody gets to live in a place like this...
...Fortunately, the man who designed the Chicago Circle campus prefers subways to taxicabs, is a champion of city living and a fancier of pop and op. He is Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's gangling M.I.T. Grad Walter Netsch, 45, architect of the Air Force Academy's space-frame chapel. Rather than trying to carve out grassy plots, he has opted for the tough, rapidly moving esthetics of the city. His results are what he calls a "microenvironment," a miniature city for learning...
...Cape St. Vincent in 1797. He knew that in the monumental heap of well-chiseled stone and marble lay the heroes of his nation. An Unknown Soldier from World War I lies beneath the Abbey's roof. In the rear of Henry VII's centuries-old chapel glows a brilliant, stained-glass window reflecting the Royal Air Force's stand during the Battle of Britain. But to the enduring honor of England, more than military pomp and glory is recognized. The Abbey is also a national grave for the composer Purcell, the scientists Newton, Darwin and Kelvin...
Artzybasheff, including many of his TIME covers, which was seen by 37,000 visitors in 23 days. Next spring, at Easter time (March 12-April 17), the Center will be showing for the sixth year its No. 1 attraction: Illuminations of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes...