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Against the all-too-real chance of revolution, Perón also had a bomb shelter and Hitler-style funk hole. Through a secret panel in the ground-floor pressroom of his downtown publishing house, a passage led to an underground vault lined with rosewood. A bedroom there had silk pajamas, an emergency supply of oxygen, and a wall safe big enough to walk into. Oddly, when investigators did enter the safe, they easily tapped out the plaster wall at the back and found a long underground escape passage leading to another office building next door...
Lost at Sea. For the opening night, visited by 2,500 guests, a once drab ground-floor gallery of Paris' Musee National d'Art Moderne had been transformed into a gleaming room swimming in diffused light and housing what was unquestionably the hit of the show: a handsome cross section of contemporary U.S. archi-texture. Among the large scale-models and ceiling-high photomurals: Pittsburgh's aluminum-sheathed Alcoa Building, Manhattan's stilt-borne Lever House, Chicago's glass towers by Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright's laboratory for the Johnson...
...current Margutta Who's Who would include Sculptor Pericle Fazzini (TIME, March 10, 1952), who holds court in his ground-floor studio; Bulgarian-born Assen Peikov, a society portrait painter who affects a Mongol-style mustache; brunette Novella Parigini, a great friend of Errol Flynn's, who paints sexy calendar girls and looks like one; dignified, 70-year-old Giuseppe Carosi, who lives with his cats in a genteel Victorian apartment; lean, intense Communist Sculptor Nino Franchina, who does abstractions in metals...
When he is not at the state-controlled textile factory at Nazilli, Eyuboglu still labors long and cheerfully in his dank ground-floor studio down an alley from the city's main street. He sells most of his pictures for under $50, and according to a friend, "if you express a special interest in something he has done, he'll insist on giving it to you." Eyuboglu's ambitions far outsoar commercial success. Says he: "My goal is to evolve an art as unique as Persian miniatures and Matisse, and as Turkish as our coffee and tobacco...
...permanent display in a ground-floor window deals with a subject of universal, but particularly British, interest-the weather. On a 26-sq.-ft. map, curved like a spinnaker, varicolored lights are projected to show what the weather is doing over an area of about 1,500,000 square miles (from Iceland to France). In the same window will be London weather forecasts, recording instruments for sunshine, temperature and humidity, and instruments to show atmospheric pressure and wind velocity and direction...