Word: filles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sooner or later, eyes less jaded than his contemporaries' were bound to notice Romanino. His frescoes fill the churches of Brescia, his home town in northern Italy, and the chapels and monasteries dotting the surrounding countryside. When city fathers saw the 400th anniversary of his death approaching-biographers guess that he died between 1560 and 1566-they thought it high time to give a boost to his reputation. With funds from Rome, they restored the town's 11th century duomo and flooded its musty stone interior with fluorescent light; his paintings and frescoes were rounded up and mounted...
...trick is to discover a need, then find a way to fill it. Don Over, 37, saw a need for a trade journal that would tell big builders what major construction jobs were up for bidding: he took over a failing Honolulu magazine and printing press, built up a circulation in 60 countries for his International Construction Reporter (cost: $50 per year). Merlyn Mickelson decided that the computer companies would need a lot of handmade magnetic memory cores, started turning them out in his basement workshop; that eventually grew into Fabri-Tek Inc., in which his stockholdings are now worth...
Mahgoub's mediating ways were promptly applied to the non-Moslem southern provinces, where rebellion against Khartoum's control has festered for months. Last week he managed to find southerners to fill three Cabinet posts reserved for the south. Next step: southern elections, which the insurgency has so far made impossible. Speaking to Parliament last week, Mahgoub said, "Our main duty is to face the great challenge of realizing security and stability, and pressing forward with the revival of democracy after six years of military oppression." Mahgoub saw no "insuperable blockades" to good relations with neighboring Egypt...
...McGinley did not ask to get into the argument. But since she has been praising domesticity all along, in both essay and verse, her publisher prodded her into assembling her thoughts as rebuttal to all those, like Betty Friedan, who deprecate the very role that Housewife McGinley prefers to fill. The result was Sixpence in Her Shoe, in which she restates the proposition for which her own life has been the best evidence: that even today's educated woman can fit happily into the framework of the home. Sixpence sold slowly at first. But after housewives began...
...pioneering program in prepaid medical care (administered through the Blue Cross-Blue Shield system). Last year over 20 members of the staff collaborated in the production of a sort of encyclopedia to college health affairs, College Health Administration, which does everything from reproducing the forms Harvard requires freshmen to fill out to explaining the legal aspects of university medicine, does everything from reproducing the forms Harvard requires freshmen to fill out to explaining the legal aspects of university medicine...