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Sentries stood 24-hour guard at her cabin door on the S.S. France. She was tied to a berth and encased in an airtight 160-lb. plastic container impervious to salt and water. No one would insure her against harm because she is priceless. But a warm welcome awaits the Mona Lisa on her arrival this week at Washington's National Gallery. Officials are fiddling with the thermostats to duplicate the Louvre's temperature and humidity so that all will be well on Jan. 8 when the painting goes on display for three weeks. Back home, the rhubarb...
...years; then her left elbow was chipped by a stone-throwing Brazilian. In recent years she has resided safely and quietly in Paris, well cared for by doting Frenchmen, who used to value her at $10 million, now insure her for $100 million and really think she is priceless. Just the same, if high-level negotiations work out the details for her comfort, Leonardo da Vinci's enigmatic Mona Lisa will leave the Louvre next year for her first visit to the U.S. to tour the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan...
...insure that every student be tutored; the plan was aimed instead at allowing any student performing satisfactory work to make for himself the choice of whether or not to write a thesis. A thesis in any field whatever, no matter whether English or Social Sciences, can be a priceless educational experience. As long as there is even one student on the borderline between Honors and non-Honors who is willing to risk a degree without distinction but would like to put in the hours of work that a thesis requires, the English Department should allow him the option...
...turn over to the state, for use as the Gov ernor's mansion, their dreamland Denver home, with 23 furnished rooms, a magnificent tooled-leather library, a crystal chandelier that once adorned the White House (in the days of President Taft), and a profusion of priceless tapestries. When the Colorado legislators declined the offer, McNichols went right ahead and accepted it-and he is now living in the Boettcher museum. In short, McNichols enjoys his let-the-chips-fall approach to life and politics. When he has a big problem, he finds a big expert to give...
...Stuart's famed replicas that he did from his originals for the plain purpose of making money (perpetually in financial trouble, Stuart fled England in 1787 owing ?80 for snuff, and died in 1828 leaving a pile of debts and a priceless heritage of paintings...