Word: leonardo
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...handsome hacienda that does wonders for the university's architecture, which is mostly a blend of Early Southern Pacific and Neo-Romanesque. "Our motto is coffee and culture," glows Director Chester A. Berry, 46. Just for a start. Berry will soon launch "Project Da Vinci"-stuffing Tresidder with Leonardo's notebooks, reproductions of his sketches and 35 working models of his inventions...
Thin Skin. Last week not only Puffin's puffers, but two other teams of British aeronauts as well, were attempting to accomplish what Leonardo da Vinci had failed to do nearly 450 years ago: build and fly an aircraft powered only by man. The payoff is tempting: a $14,000 prize donated by London Industrialist Henry Kremer, 55. The rules of the contest are deceptively simple. All a citizen of the Commonwealth has to do is fly a heavier-than-air craft over a figure-eight course, around two turning points not less than half a mile apart. According...
...only a fragile piece of paper, 39 by 54 inches, but Britain's Royal Academy figured that it would sell for $2,800,000. And why not sell it? Leonardo's drawing of Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist would not be much missed−to judge from the scant attention it got in nearly 200 years at the academy, mostly not even on public display. Off to Sotheby's last March went the announcement that the drawing, thought to be the cartoon of Leonardo's similar painting in the Louvre...
...elaborate restoration job performed by the Ministry of Works. But the restoration has also given the art world an extra dividend: in restoring the 16th century paintings, the ministry uncovered some rare and priceless specimens from the 15th. One official has called them as exciting as the Leonardo cartoon owned by the Royal Academy...
...meeting, Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. set off general giggling with his candid explanation as to why the company was enlarging its collection of early scientific models rather than paintings. "My father was the art expert," he said dryly. "We have been turning more to collections of Leonardo da Vinci models-something I can understand." At many meetings, too, attendance was smaller than last year; by discontinuing its free lunch, A.T. & T. cut attendance from 20,000 last year to 3,200 a fortnight...