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...once great republic of Venice was dying. Spies kept watch on the Piazza San Marco, clerics confiscated books by Voltaire and Rousseau, and not infrequently a tourist would stumble upon a dead body ignominiously tagged "For treason against the state." Throughout the 18th century, Venice still ranked as the favorite playground of Europe, but with its possessions dwindling, its power declining, and its wealthy reveling in pomp and cant, all that remained was shimmer and shadow...
...with pebbles. Artist Francois Dallegret, who fashions fantastic automobiles, decked himself out like a skyrocket in a whiz-bang blazer of multicolored baby bunting. A Japanese clothed all in bright green staged a sort of Zen happening (a Jappening?) by sitting down right in the middle of Piazza San Marco, but by then everyone was too sated and wilted by the heat to care...
...most Americans, Peking's motives are about as scrutable as they were in Marco Polo's day-and about as predictable. Last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, whose chairman, J. William Fulbright, acknowledged that he needs educating on Red China, called in two distinguished academic Sinologists for help in reading the dragon's mind...
...French archaeologists excavated the crumbling city of Begram near the Hindu Kush, the mighty massif that barricades Afghanistan to the northeast. Roman glassware, Chinese lacquer work and Indian ivories were found together, revealing that the East and West were closer together in 300 B.C. than in the days of Marco Polo, 15 centuries later...
Died. Tony De Marco, 67, U.S. ballroom dancer in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, leader of the "Dancing De Marcos," who whirled his magnificently gowned partners around vaudeville and supper-club stages of the U.S. and Europe, thrilling audiences with his gliding grace and superbly timed leaps, in 1957 retired to Florida with Sally De Marco, his third wife and tenth partner; following a stroke; in West Palm Beach...