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...display at the gallery on March 17, it may cause some controversy, for Ginevra dei Benci is no Mona Lisa. Leonardo painted her some 29 years earlier, when he had only recently completed his apprenticeship in the Florentine studio of Andrea del Verrocchio. The technique, while accomplished, is stiffer than that of his later works. Yet Ginevra, a curly-haired blonde with narrow, almost Mongolian eyes, a stern, pale mouth and alabaster skin, is clearly one of Leonardo's ladies. Like La Gioconda, she is ambivalent, as cold as she is beautiful, and as repellent as she is alluring...
...Stiffer Resistance...
Columbia put up a stiffer struggle, but the Harvard aces came through in the clutch. Murphy, Chalfie, Shrout, and the redoubtable Bragg all won again to pace the Crimson to its fourth victory in six meets...
...Stiffer Policy...
...Nina P. Hillgarth, head of the GSAS Admissions Office, said yesterday that a "stiffer admissions policy" might be needed to cope with the increasing number of applicants. But officials won't know just how tough their selection process will have to be until application folders have been sorted by departments...