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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olivetti and the approval of the Italian government and Rome's Pontifical Commission on Sacred Art, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum this week puts on view 46 frescoes from walls in Tuscany. Many were removed from their original locations and mounted on separate panels during the past two years because of severe damage resulting from the disastrous 1966 Arno River floods. All are being allowed this unprecedented, seven-week-long excursion across the Atlantic as Italy's way of saying grazie to Americans who, through the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, gave $2,200,000 for the restoration...
Hidden Sketches. Detaching a fresco from its wall is a process that has only been perfected in the past decade. In essence, it requires that a piece of canvas be glued temporarily to the face of the fresco. Then the canvas and the attached mural surface are gently peeled off together. The back of the fresco is then remounted on a panel, and the canvas protecting its front is removed. It is a delicate operation, and until Masonite and Fiberglas came along, no backing could be found that did not sag, warp, wrinkle or crack...
...regrets. "I always wanted the fame," he says. Besides, his childhood was even more circumscribed than his brothers'. To him, the past recalls the awkwardness of getting lost in the city and having to call his family to help him home, the loneliness of being shut out of ordinary athletics and socializing at school, the painful necessity of relying on benefactors to guide him through life. He has been blind since birth...
Fall into Line. In the past two years, Chrysler announced price tags for new models, then scaled them down when the industry pacesetter, General Motors, announced lower price hikes. Both G.M. and Ford are planning to post their own new lists this week, and inflation watchdogs in Washington expect increases of about one-third of Chrysler's. They hope that such competition will force the No. 3 carmaker to fall into line once again. To help matters along, Okun and other top Administration people huddled last week with executives of both General Motors and Ford, including G.M. Chairman James...
...past seven years, elusive Industrialist Howard Hughes and Trans World Airlines have been tangled in a complex legal battle. The conflict dates back to late 1960, when Hughes, in return for $165 million in loans to pay for TWA's first jets, had to surrender his 78.2% ownership of the airline to a voting trust controlled by the lending banks and insurance companies...