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...Correspondent Piero Saporiti flew over the Andes for a first, fresh-eyed view of Peru, its economy and policies (see Progress to Prosperity in HEMISPHERE). While in Lima, Saporiti tried a dish called ceviche, which is popular in many Latin American countries. When he asked for the recipe, the cook said, "All you do is take a corvina [a black-finned fish] and leave it in lemon juice for three hours." Saporiti asked: "What next...
...underrate his competition, Dreyfus worries most about 1) a British-built, 3,442-cc. Jaguar entered by Briggs Cunningham, who owned last year's winning Osca, 2) a 2,999-cc. Ferrari to be driven by Italy's aging (48) Piero Taruffi and America's Harry Schell and 3) a 2,660-cc. Austin-Healey, handled by British Champion Stirling Moss and Co-Driver Lance Macklin...
Three days later an impressive array of government art experts descended on Borgo San Sepolcro. After spending a full day in careful inspection, Professor Ugo Procacci, director of Florence's Department of Restorations, announced: "The decision to attribute the painting to Piero della Francesca is unanimous. Even if the painting is not mentioned in original sources, it emerges beyond challenge, from other documents, that Piero della Francesca did work in this church on some panels...
...find may well boost interest in the very great Renaissance painter who had all but dropped from sight 400 years after his death. Famed in his day as one of Italy's greatest masters of mathematical perspective, Piero trademarked his work with his magnificent handling of translucent atmosphere, and his ability to use form and light to give flesh tones an almost silver sheen. It took the followers of Cézanne, with their taste for color and geometric form, to start Piero's comeback; other modernists, in rebellion against the 19th century love of the elaborate...
Just what Piero's original masterpiece looked like will never be fully known, for only the head, shoulders and torso of his haloed young man remain. The rest of the figure was apparently destroyed generations ago, when the church wall was cut away for a doorway and a new partition added...