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...RAVENNA is the world's chief repository of early Byzantine art, surpassing even Istanbul, the capital of Byzantium. The ancient churches and chapels of the sleepy Italian town (pop. 35,000) are lit by windowpanes of translucent alabaster and by the glitter and blaze of great mosaics such as the triumphant Christ opposite. Ravenna's mosaics, made of innumerable bits of glass, gold and marble chips stuck in plaster, have neither the drama of Gothic church art nor the human warmth of the Renaissance masters. Yet they are equally great, and gayer than either. Their gaiety expresses...
...Atlantic last week to make a deal that will give his country its first doorway into the synthetic-rubber industry. In Manhattan, Mattei signed contracts with Phillips Petroleum Co. and Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. for their processes and help in building a $75 million synthetic-rubber plant at Ravenna, in the Po Valley. It will turn out 35,000 tons of GR-S rubber and 350,000 tons of nitrogen fertilizer annually from nearby methane deposits. The plant will be not only the first synthetic-rubber factory in Italy but the first in Europe to make rubber from natural...
Seething over this latest example of the Christian Democrats' new determination to harass the enemy by every legal means, the Communists called a one-day citywide strike in Florence. And at a merry festa in Ravenna, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was so mad he let his fangs show. Usually he talks a sweetly reasonable line; last week he gloated over the death of EDC, hailed the armistice in Indo-China and boiled with indignation at the banning of the festa in Florence...
...themselves in the great mirrors. So they sent for the finest master of the German Renaissance style, Henry Hardenbergh, and he did this-a skyscraper but not the monstrous thing the skyscraper was to become later. He still managed to keep it with a human sense. There were Ravenna mosaics on the floor, but they covered them up with rugs. A lot of it has been spoiled by inferior desecrators...
...only to be expected that as the war went on the Italians would try to make things easier for themselves by ratting to the other side." Italian "treachery" notwithstanding, he claims and probably deserves credit for sparing such culturally rich towns as Orvieto, Perugia, Urbino, Siena, Padua, Ravenna and Venice from military destruction. He admits "the destruction of the wonderful [Florentine] bridges across the Arno." As for the famed monastery of Monte Cassino, Kesselring stoutly denies that the German armies ever put it to military...