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...Italian baroque. But in his favorite areas, particularly the 19th century, an exquisitely sure taste has been at work. One would have to go some distance before finding drawings as good as Cézanne's big study of a card player, in which the pencil strokes endow every plane of flesh and fold of cloth with the crystalline solidity of gray limestone; or Daumier's brace of lawyers, whispering together like upholstered vultures...
...like a pretty shrewd move right now. Reliable sources contend that Constantine A. Trypanis, the Greek Minister of Civilization and Culture, spent two days in Cambridge last July to clinch an agreement on the chair between Harvard and the Greek government. Trypanis left a check for $1 million to endow the George Seferis Professorship in Modern Greek Studies. A lump sum of $2 million will make the entire program feasible by providing for an assistant professorship, two graduate student fellowships and library funds...
Informed sources say, however, that the Greek government gave the University a check for $1 million to endow the George Seferis Professorship in Modern Greek Studies. The check was delivered by the Greek Minister of Civilization and Culture, Constantine A. Trypanis, when he visited Cambridge last July...
Dennis N. Skiotis, assistant professor of History, said last week that he had heard "through the grapevine" that "Harvard has received much of the money from the Greek government" required to endow the chair...
...interest in Honeywell Bull to the French government and CGE for "about" $60 million. Eventually, 53% of Honeywell Bull stock will be in French hands, but Honeywell, with its resources and familiarity with the U.S. market, will remain the dominant partner. Beyond that, the French government will endow the company with slightly less than $300 million -mainly in the form of research contracts and study grants during the next four years and give it preferential treatment in awarding contracts...