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Having lost more than 2,000 men since the ground war resumed last month, the Communists were less anxious last week to stand and fight. The elusive nature of the enemy has rarely been better demonstrated than in the U.S.-led assault on War Zone C, a 1,000-sq.-mi. pocket of swampland that bulges into Cambodia. The area, 75 miles northwest of Saigon, has for 20 years been Communism's major stronghold in South Viet Nam, and is believed to contain the national headquarters of the Viet Cong. In the hope of getting the Communists to stand...
...Washington's National Gallery of Art announced that it had acquired Leonardo's 15⅛-in. by 14½-in. oil portrait of Ginevra dei Benci, a 15th century nobleman's wife. The seller was Prince Franz Josef II, head of tiny (61 sq. mi.) Liechtenstein, tucked snugly between Austria and Switzerland. Price: an estimated $5,000,000, more than twice the previous record of $2,300,000, paid in 1961 for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. And while the National Gallery refused to identify the private...
Starting this summer, construction will take six to eight years, require 9,000 man-years of labor, create enough office space (2,800,000 sq. ft.) for 15,000 employees. The 81-acre plot, long the ramshackle home of the city's wholesale produce market, will soon be cleared by urban renewal. The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency sold the land for a bargain $11.5 million, but the city expects a $3,000,000-a-year bonanza in realty taxes, plus increased convention and tourist trade. Says Redevelopment Director M. Justin Herman: "We held out to find one buyer...
...today that other companies have grabbed eagerly at the forsaken quarters. Most of the demand comes from expanding businesses already on the scene, notably the headquarters of 26% of the nation's 500 largest corporations. In fact, Mayor Lindsay insisted that the city, with some 8,000,000 sq. ft. of office space due to be completed this year, is still amidst "a boom in corporate growth...
...secrets of mural painting to his satisfaction, he does not mean to rest. Among his unfinished projects is a 54-panel March of Humanity to be installed in the Olimpico Hotel, scheduled for completion at the time of the 1968 Summer Olympics. Since the March covers 48,000 sq. ft., it will be the world's largest mural. To Siqueiros, that is only as it should be. Says he proudly: "Mexican muralism is being reconsidered and recognized all over the world. It is not a nationalist movement, but a transcendental...