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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Embarrassed as they are by the disorder in Canton, Maoist chiefs in Peking can do little about it. Last week, as usual, they were preoccupied with troubles in their own backyard. Items: > Demonstrators set a Russian car ablaze, then smashed into the Soviet embassy compound in a brazen display that moved the Kremlin to warn that a "hysterical anti-Soviet campaign" can only lead to a total break in diplomatic relations...
...Reinhold Neibuhr would have it, charity is in essence a display of power...
...University Professor Bates Lowry was able with little difficulty to organize the distinguished Committee to Rescue Italian Art. CRIA quickly raised approximately $2,000,000 to aid in the restoration of damaged works. Its most recent-and most popular-fund-raising device is "The Italian Heritage," an exhibit on display through Aug. 29 at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery, where it has already attracted more than 11,000 visitors...
Under the Big Top. Circus Master John Ringling never could resist a painting big enough to display under a big top, and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., has contributed a swashbuckling, 7½-ft Veronese. Dime Store King Samuel Kress left one collection of Italian paintings to the National Gallery-and a second to 18 different museums around the U.S., three of whom sent contributions to the CRIA exhibit. While most works acquired by collectors have by now come to rest in museums, some at the Wildenstein still reside in private homes. A charming...
...crowned by a 114-ft.-high greenhouse, shaped like a streamlined horseshoe, which will permit scientists from the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife to construct complete ecologies, or natural environments, within it. Reconstructed portions of the Florida Everglades, coral reefs and East and West Coast tidal pools will display not only fish but also insects and even birds in native common habitats...