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...collection to fit the museum when it was still their own home, a gem of early Federal architecture on Cincinnati's Lytle Park. In 1927 they presented it intact to Cincinnati. The quiet spacious rooms are adorned but not crowded with Duncan Phyfe furniture, 200 Chinese porcelains, a top-rank selection of French Renaissance enamels, and more than 100 canvases, from Hieronymus Bosch to John Singer Sargent, all of extraordinary quality. In fact, Hals's Laughing Child is only one of a dozen absolute masterpieces in the museum...
...dragons in white on blue tiles. ¶ Thirty 7½-ft.-high bas-reliefs from the frieze of the Pergamon Altar, a vast Hellenistic masterpiece commissioned by King Eumenes II in Asia Minor about 180 B.C. ¶ A roomful of Botticelli drawings illustrating the Divine Comedy. ¶ Hundreds of top-rank Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman and Chinese statues and ceramics. ¶ Cranach's Judith and Holofernes, Bosch's small Temptation of St. Anthony, Hals's Mulatto...
...dictator had little time to savor this success. Day after day, knotsof rioting students raced through downtown Caracas, burning cars and chanting "Down with Pérez Jiménez !" Petitions circulated, signed by nearly 1,000 top-rank businessmen, professional men and artists, demanding an end to the police state. Against the demonstrators, the cops used the strongman's best brand of brutal force. But despite hundreds of arrests, school closings and screams of pain echoing through Security Police headquarters, Pérez Jiménez could not still the civilian unrest. At week's end reports...
Like their colleagues, four of the new additions are top-rank men of science: Caltech's Physics Professor R. F. Bacher, Harvard's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist E. M. Purcell, University of California's Livermore Laboratory Director Herbert York, Harvard Chemistry Professor George B. Kistiakowsky. The fifth new member, Lieut. General (ret.) James Harold Doolittle, is a notable all-round man -engineer (doctor of science, M.I.T., 1925), topflight air commander in World War II, executive (a director and vice president of Shell Oil Co.). and one of the clearest voices in the field of defense. M.I.T...
...violating the French Penal Code by seeking knowingly "to demoralize the army." There were some weak points in Servan-Schreiber's attack. His editors had dressed up the articles with pictures of military action committed not in Algeria but in Morocco, and as a close friend and top-rank follower of Radical Socialist Leader Pierre Mendeès-France, Servan-Schreiber is also open to the charge of politicking. But Servan-Schreiber reports that more than 100 French army officers and soldiers have written to him, offering to testify to the truth of his articles...