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...Ramses' memorial. One faction wanted to cover the temple with a watertight dome, another to protect it with a curving cofferdam. Both dome and cofferdam could be built, but they would be difficult to maintain and would dwarf the temple. The most attractive scheme, conceived by Italian Archaeologist Piero Gazzola, was to cut the whole temple free of the surrounding rock and lift it with 308 hydraulic jacks to a new place above the water. This daring proposal was accepted by the Egyptian government, which will contribute $10 million...
...Bernard Berenson had nothing but affection for the work of the isth century Italian Artist Carlo Crivelli. But when B. B. came to write his authoritative studies of Italian Renaissance painters, he felt obliged to leave Crivelli out. Though the artist was the contemporary of Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna and Piero della Francesca, he remained, in Berenson's opinion, essentially an exponent of the Late Gothic spirit-superb in his way, but "the product of stationary, if not reactionary, conditions." Last week 80 works by Crivelli and his followers were shown in the Doges' Palace of Venice...
...restless force that has steered Montecatini, Italy's giant chemical company, away from minerals and into a worldwide petrochemical operation is supplied by its big (200 Ibs.), back-thumping managing director, Piero Giustiniani, 61. Last week, to expand its toehold in the U.S. chemical market, Montecatini bought for an estimated $5.7 million a 4% interest in New Jersey's Minerals and Chemicals-Philipp Corp. As part of the deal-which is designed to produce transatlantic cooperation in mining, manufacturing and merchandising-Giustiniani got a seat on the Minerals and Chemicals board. Somewhat ruefully, Italian colleagues predict that American...
...strongmen who rule heavily while spieling the jargon of social reform. On the entire South American continent, only one old-school tyrant remains: a trimly mustached, part-German artillery general named Alfredo Stroessner, boss of backward Paraguay. Last week, after a trip into Stroessner's stronghold, TIME Correspondent Piero Saporiti reported that the survivor is under pressure to retire or reform. Reported Saporiti...
...quit in protest when other trustees overrode her objections to accept three art objects left to the collection by the late John D. Rockefeller Jr. Insisting that her father never intended to have his collection supplemented by gifts from others, Miss Frick also snorted that the Rockefeller bequests-a Piero della Francesca painting and two marble busts-were either inferior art to start with or damaged. Down in Washington, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 76, was no less outraged when she heard of a scheme to designate part of a projected Washington cultural center as a memorial to rough-riding Theodore Roosevelt...