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...recent executive order on foreign intelligence allowing the Central Intelligence Agency to enter into contracts with universities will have little effect on Harvard, Judith O. Semper, assistant director of the Office for Research and Contracts, said yesterday...
John Wilkes Booth at least had the grace to shout "Sic semper tyrannis!" Until lately, most political assassins have felt obliged to dress up their acts of public murder with some pretext of historic purpose. But the Jackal, an Englishman and pseudo gentleman, yearns for nothing more uplifting than the good life. When he gets an assignment from the OAS (France's antigovernment secret army of the early 1960s) to do in Charles de Gaulle, he looks on it simply as a "once in a lifetime job." If he brings it off, he will be able to retire...
Before the last note of Der Rosenkavalier could be sung at Architect Gottfried Semper's century-old opera house that night, the first wave of bombers thundered over the lovely cupolas, towers and spires of the doomed city. In the next 14 hours, 1,400 British Lancasters and American Flying Fortresses dropped 3,749 tons of explosives. Some 650,000 incendiary bombs created a swirling "firestorm" that sucked everything around it into the inferno's center. Columns of smoke plumed three miles into the glowing sky as the city burned for eight nights. Corpses, some shrunk...
...first task in the reconstruction was restoring the Baroque 18th century Zwinger (literally, the Keep). In 1946, 150 master stonemasons went to work; it took them 16 years to complete the job. Alongside the Zwinger, Semper's famous Gemaldegalerie (Art Gallery) once again exhibits Raphael's Sistine Madonna, twelve Rembrandts (including his Portrait of Saskia), 1 6 Rubenses, five Titians and two Vermeers. Gaetano Chiaveri's Baroque 18th century Hofkirche (Court Church) is finished and used regularly for Catholic services. The old Landhaus (Statehouse), an imposing mansion reminiscent of Versailles, has been turned into a museum...
...with grain stacked in his barns? Seventeenth century Holland experienced one of the first of the futures markets. Dutchmen became so infatuated with tulips from Asia Minor that they stopped planting and began trading them. Prices rose to the point where one merchant paid $1,400 for a Semper Augustus bulb, which was eaten by an employee who mistook it for an onion...