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...move. The Louvre's Venus de Milo, weighing more than a ton, arrived in Japan to grace the summer Olympics, having lost four chips of plaster and marble added during a 19th century restoration (they were glued back on). To enhance the New York World's Fair, Michelangelo's 6,700-lb. Pietà was eased off its pedestal in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, slid down planks lubricated with laundry soap and packed in a double box with a foam plastic that cushions the marble and supports it by filling every cranny...
Fair or Olympic crowds can appreciate great works of art. The Venus de Milo is being shown in a flashy arena with a moving platform to carry viewers by without strain; the Pietà will be dramatically lighted in a staging designed by Jo Mielziner...
...only connection with athletics is size. But no matter. Her voluptuous, 6-ft. 8½-in. body (52-39-51) and flawless marble complexion are eternal symbols of grace and beauty; so the Japanese government has requested her presence in Tokyo and Kyoto next summer. For Venus de Milo, such a visit would be unprecedented, and it required a d'accord from De Gaulle himself. But everything is set, and following the tradition of Mono. Lisa, she will go on a carefully packed ocean voyage. All this gallivanting-around by Louvre ladies has at least one young Frenchman upset...
...Agreement. Once in office, Belaúnde opened negotiations for a new contract with I.P.C. President Milo M. Brisco. But the talks quickly turned sour. The company argued that Belaúnde's demand for $50 million plus a future 60% income tax amounted to "economic confiscation," took ads in Lima papers to show that I.P.C. would be losing money. I.P.C. wanted a 50% income tax; it agreed to pay the $50 million but insisted that these payments be considered deductible expenses against future taxes. All of this, the Peruvians refused...
...Kelso: the $108,900 Jockey Club Gold Cup, for the fourth year in a row, by four lazy lengths at Aqueduct. Cutting his own pace ("I couldn't control him," admitted Jockey Milo Valenzuela), the great gelding galloped to his eighth straight stakes victory, ran his lifetime earnings to $1,556,702, sewed up Horse of the Year honors for an unprecedented fourth straight year...