Word: mona
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Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. He invented prototypes of the submarine, the diving mask and snorkel, the airplane, the parachute, the tank and the hydraulic screw. What he did not invent, as the opening segment of CBS's five-part Life of Leonardo da Vinci amply illustrated this week, was a way of having his own story told well...
VANDALISM can be a form of murder. There are 13th century panels in Siena whose painted demons have been scratched to obliteration by pious fingernails; the Mona Lisa has been stoned. Last week, in one of the most vicious examples of vandalism to date, Michelangelo's Vatican Pieta was almost ritually assaulted by a 33-year-old Hungarian-born Australian geologist who cried: "I am Jesus Christ...
...Washington-New York-Boston shuttle. It not only gives the pilot the required altitude for his flight path but also displays his plane's position on a moving map or TV-type cathode-ray tube throughout the trip. Finally, there are more sophisticated systems like the Arma-Decca Mona system (for modular navigation) and Collins' ANS-70, which can store and read out voluminous information, including navigational data on an airline's entire route structure. These advanced systems are also adaptable to such future navigation aids as satellite systems and the Navy's low-frequency, long...
...Mona Lisa's 100 Smiles. 100 visual-typographic versions of the Da Vinci painting. Lobby. Carpenter Center, through March 5, Student Work from Visual and Environmental Studies 127. Through March...
Aside from Kilbridge. Vigier and Isaacs, other key figures likely to appear as witnesses today are: William A. Doebele Jr., professor of Advanced Environmental Studies: Jerome W. Lindsey Jr., associate dean of the GSD: Thomas E. Nutt, a 1970 graduate of the Design School: Mona Serageldin, a research assistant in the Planning Department; and W. Davis Taylor '31, chairman of the Overseers' GSD Visiting Committee...