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Broken Mold. No one knows when Fra Angelico first began to show the unmistakable signs of genius. Only a year after he took his final vows, his convent was thrown into turmoil as a result of the rival claims of three Popes. The Fiesole monks saw their prior arrested, and fled for safety to Foligno, then to Cortona. But from this nine-year period of exile, no record of Fra Angelico's activities has survived. One theory is that, on the Dominicans' return to Fiesole, Fra Angelico worked under Lorenzo Monaco, a Camaldolese monk famed for his manuscript...
Accommodating & Fair. When the news first broke, some 20 colleges wired the foundation in desperation. Because of the stipulation that they must match whatever grants they got, they had simply thrown the original questionnaires in the wastebasket. A few colleges, e.g., Massachusetts' Anna Maria, got their accreditation only the day before the final list was made up. The foundation tried to be accommodating; it also tried to be as fair as possible. Roman Catholic institutions, for instance, which have some teachers who get no salaries, will get grants based on a full payroll...
Last week U.S. Time, the world's biggest producer of watches, announced a new line of self-winding, Armalloy-bearing watches that can be thrown not only on floors but also against Swiss competition. Starting with an output of 1,500 a day, U.S. Time will enter a field shunned by almost all U.S. manufacturers. Up till now the Swiss, whose low labor costs let them make jeweled movements more cheaply than American producers can, have dominated the U.S. self-winder market. Lehmkuhl hopes to capture one-third of it by selling his watches for $14.95, roughly half...
...other jealous husbands, both subsequently divorced, admitted that they had subscribed to Broady's service to spy on their wives (TV Songstress Kyle Mac-Donnell and Glamour Girl Tauni de Les-seps), but both counts were thrown out of court, because in New York State it is legal for a client to have his own phone tapped...
...Aubervilliers live Andree, Juliette and Colette-each 24, each working in a factory. Colette- and Juliette work in the nearby Tungsram plant, Andree in the Citroen factory 'in Asnieres. Despite her training years in factory work, Andree's hands are red and swollen from the steel particles thrown off by the cutting tools in the big machine shop where she works with 300 other women...