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...drawings by Leonardo da Vinci known to survive in the world, some 600 have resided for centuries in the royal collection of Britain's monarchs. How they came to be there is not certain. Most of them seem to have been brought to England by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, known as "the father of English art collectors," who found them in Spain some time after 1637. The royal family acquired them some time before 1690. But apparently neither King William III nor Queen Mary was much impressed by their quality. A hundred years later, an official at Windsor...
Censorship of the press is hardly a rarity in Latin America, but Brazil's military-backed government seems more brazen about it than most. Instead of arresting, warning or otherwise punishing specific editors for printing articles that President Arthur da Costa e Silva finds offensive, the government is now flatly telling the nation's press how to handle stories in advance. Preparing for Nelson Rockefeller's scheduled visit to Brazil this week, the government ordered all editors to "collaborate in order to create a favorable climate for the stay among us of this representative of the Government...
Deferred Vote. Although details remain to be worked out, an agreement along these lines would probably allow the Pentagon to acquire the first two missile sites, in Montana and North Da kota, and install two sets of radars - Perimeter-Acquisition Radar and Missile-Site Radar - along with the com puter network needed for processing information on incoming enemy missiles...
...came in from the damp, striding briskly from his chauffeur-driven Rover 2000, whuppa-da-whupp through the revolving door into the Victorian lobby of Brown's Hotel, Dover Street, London W.I. To an experienced counterespionage agent, his disguise probably would have appeared too perfect, and therefore suspicious. But there were no M15 types on duty at Brown's ?only a myopic receptionist too vain to wear her National Health Service spectacles and a concierge who had been with the house for 43 years and certainly knew a well-to-do Yank tourist when he saw one: blue suit...
...gallery, it fell to Walker to make selections from them and to authenticate debated pictures. Walker became director himself in 1956; during his term, he almost doubled the gallery's holdings, acquiring 899 new paintings. His single greatest coup was the U.S.'s first Leonardo da Vinci, the $5,000,000 Ginevra del Bend...