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...discovery: a complete set of Communion vessels dating from the 8th or early 9th century. The choicest piece was a two-handled silver chalice, 8 in. high and ornamented with gold filigree and amber studs. With it, the contractor found a matching silver tray, called a paten, and a gilt-bronze ladle with perforations to strain grape pulp from the sacramental wine...
Among the bullion, jewels, plate, rare marble and statuary the fleet brought back, the most celebrated work of art was a group of four antique gilt-bronze horses that Dandolo gave to his republic. They were hoisted, as supreme emblems of conquest, onto pedestals above the entrance to the San Marco Basilica. There they remained for some 750 years, except for a period when they were stolen by Napoleon, and when they were taken down for safekeeping during the two World Wars. Today the horses of San Marco remain the most famous bronzes to survive from the ancient world...
People who wonder what it takes to be a leader would do well to listen to Charles Knight. His father, Lester B. Knight, 72, who is one of the premier management consultants, programmed young Chuck to be a leader ever since he grew up on Chicago's gilt-edged North Shore. At 15, Dad packed his only son off to a client's foundry in a small Canadian town for a summer's work to learn blue-collar life. After that there were summer jobs in Switzerland, Germany and Argentina, engineering and business studies, varsity football...
...made it a leading pharmaceutical company. While the secretive Roche has 122 facilities around the world, it did not publish its first consolidated account until 1974. The firm is publicly owned, but its chief stockholders are mostly wealthy descendants of the founders or early executives who rarely trade their gilt-edged shares (current price...
...obvious that this question would dominate the Tokyo summit long before the government chiefs gathered around a 27-ft.-long mahogany table in the gilt-and-rococo Akasaka Palace for their first formal session. The summit, fifth in an annual series devoted to economics, had been scheduled before the latest oil crisis broke, and Jimmy Carter took the occasion to combine it with a state visit to Japan. For three days, while diplomats maneuvered in the back rooms, the President patiently went through the ceremonial rituals of such a visit?reviewing troops under a broiling Tokyo sun; chatting amiably with...