Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason why Washington felt it necessary to issue that reassurance was the recent arrest in Saigon of an alleged Viet Cong agent who had supposedly met secretly with U.S. officials. Last week, a U.S. source in Saigon said that the man was actually a CIA agent working with non-Communist elements of the N.L.F...
...knocked down to a London dealer for $1,411,200, thus setting an auction record for an impressionist painting (TIME, Dec. 8), the rumor spread that the buyer was the Metropolitan. Making it official, President Arthur A. Houghton Jr. announced that the Monet had indeed been bought for the Met, by "a small group of intimate friends," presumably including Houghton and Investment Banker Robert Lehman...
Telltale Lines. Two days later it was Met Vice Director Joseph V. Noble's turn to unwrap another kind of a secret. Appearing before a jampacked museum audience gathered to hear a lecture on "The Art of Forgery," Noble displayed a Greek bronze statuette of a horse, bought by the museum in 1923 from a Paris dealer, that has been hailed by critics as "the quintessence of the ancient Greek spirit." It is pictured in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and dated circa 470 B.C. In fact the horse, said Noble, is early 20th century...
Noble has been leary of the steed's bloodlines since July 1961. It has taken six years of sleuthing, and a notable advance in technology, to confirm his nagging suspicions. The Met quietly retired the horse while its ancestry was being checked (though Brentano's book store was still selling a $75 replica when the news was released). What had initially caught Noble's eye while strolling by the horse was a thin line that runs from the top of the mane to the tip of the nose and, less evidently, circles the entire body. "I knew...
...present draft of the RUS Constitution fudges over one vital question--to what extent will students participate in Council meetings. As now drafted students would vote "only on matters directly concerning students." It does not specify whether students or administration are to define these matters. This question must be met with constructive thought by both administration and students, but it is a question which can be resolved...