Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book outlines CIA activities over the last 25 years. It describes in detail covert CIA operations in Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, and more recently its activities in Chile...
While serving in high transportation posts during Rockefeller's 14-year governorship, Ronan borrowed heavily from his boss. Neither Rockefeller nor Ronan would detail the purposes of the loans and gifts further than vaguely citing real estate purchases and financial responsibilities. Ronan in 1968 became the $75,000-a-year chairman of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which owns and operates the New York City area public transit system. He quit last May when Rocky was no longer Governor. Apparently in the few days before Ronan was appointed by the Governors of New York and New Jersey...
...President's proposals in detail...
...personal level, the Leonardo of the Madrid codices is as frustratingly hermetic as ever. But in terms of his work, the notes are priceless. They shed little new light on his painting, but this is made up for by the richness of detail in Codex Madrid II on his great sculptural project, the equestrian bronze of Francesco Sforza- Il Cavallo, as Leonardo called it, the full-size clay model for which was shot to rubble by French crossbowmen after the conquest of Milan in 1500. It would have been the largest bronze group in recorded history, 23 ft. high, cast...
...Leonardo proposed to carry out this unprecedented and technically almost unimaginable project has long been a mystery. But his Madrid notes set down the method in full detail. He invented a revolutionary system of doing it in one piece, designing special furnaces and bracing systems and winches for it, and even a way of casting it buried upside down in the marshy Milanese soil without cracking the mold. It becomes clear that Leonardo, despite Michelangelo's bitching about his ineptitude as a sculptor, knew exactly how to make the horse and was prevented from executing his plan only because...