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...millionaire instantly invites both Caine and MacLaine to dine in his private apartments, and after dinner is absurdly pleased to toddle off with Shirley on a tour of the Arab quarter. With the coast clear, Caine simply ducks back into the millionaire's flat and steals the priceless bust of a Ming empress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: How to Lift a Bust | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

FLORENCE: DAYS OF DESTRUCTION. Richard Burton narrates and Franco Zeffirelli directs this special report on the flood damage to Italy's priceless art treasures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 23, 1966 | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...instilled in us a pride in the Army that I'm ashamed to say we didn't have when we first entered. He first taught each of us to be men. Next, he taught us to accept responsibilities. Then he gave us a gift of priceless value, to be 'men among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: The Integrated Society | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...left a thick oil slick in its wake. Hundreds of rare manuscripts and books were destroyed in the slime. The water knocked out five panels of Ghiberti's "Doors of Paradise," the famed bronze reliefs on the doors of the Baptistery near the Duomo. It wrecked the priceless 13th century crucifix by Cimabue in the Museum of Santa Croce. In the basements and other galleries of the Uffizi, 1,200 paintings were spattered with mud and grease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: A Royal Fury | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

During the 13th century, King Alfonso the Wise produced the first illustrated history of Spain. The rare book showed that just as art may serve as magic, nature's mirror or man's mirth, it is also a priceless visual testament to the past. Seeing history in art fascinates Photographer Bradley Smith, who spent two years in Spain taking pictures of more than 235 art works, from the 20,000 B.C. cave paintings of Altamira to the present-day works of Miró and Picasso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Epochs: Where Both Sides Gained | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

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