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Home from the heavens, Major Yuri Gagarin was the toast of Russia. Simferopol in the Crimea threw up a hastily sculpted plaster bust of Yuri. Moscow planned a 287-ft. commemorative obelisk. Yuri's voice in space on an LP record with commentary in six languages was being readied for world sale. Yuri's image blossomed on everything from postcards to pottery. The grateful Soviet government outdid itself: it bestowed on the first spaceman and his household of six a new, four-room apartment...
...estimated 38 square feet of plaster fell from the ceiling. One of the workmen who repaired the room yesterday said that that amount of plaster would have been "very, very heavy" and would probably have seriously injured anyone beneath...
...Donahue '64 was the only person in the room at the time of the accident. "I was just studying," he said, "when I thought I heard rain. Then I looked up and a big chunk came out of the ceiling." Donahue, visibly shaken by the experience, said that the plaster crashed to the floor less than a foot from where he was sitting. "The chair I had been sitting in 15 minutes before was completely covered," he said...
Commented another Weld inhabitant, "The 325 year tradition of Harvard indifference to everything should continue and Weld should not be repaired. After all, the piece of plaster that fell was in the shape of a Veritas shield...
Time was not kind to the frescoes. De tails done in oil peeled off, the plaster cracked, smoke and grime clouded the colors, and a number of clumsy attempts at retouching made matters even worse. Finally, last April, the Italian government hired the Milanese restorer, Ottemi Delia Rotta, to try his hand. Painstakingly he removed the crusts of dirt, varnish and overpainting, injected casein glue behind places that were peeling. Today Monza's hidden treasures are hidden no longer...