Word: torcuato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Madrid's largest daily accused Yale of "trying to prove the superiority of Northern Europe." Italy's claim to Columbus, scoffed the paper, is equivalent to "crediting Germany with victory in World War II because Eisenhower is of German descent." In fact claimed A.B.C. Editor Torcuato Luca de Tena, it was Spanish Navigator Alfonso Sanchez de Huevla who first discovered the New World in 1484 eight years B.C. (before Columbus...
...Languages to Start. Clutterbuck grew into this tradition under the tutelage of the company's Italian-born founder, Torcuato Di Tella, who started half a century ago in a Buenos Aires garage as a producer of bakery machinery. Benevolently dictatorial Di Telia traveled far and saw even farther, signed license deals to manufacture U.S. iceboxes and, when cars came into vogue, U.S. gas pumps. Seeking a bilingual secretary to help with his U.S. and British contacts, he hired Clutterbuck, then 16, an orphaned son of British immigrants who never went beyond high school. Clutterbuck got his education in management...
...Nevelson's Royal Game from Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery. Price for the 5-ft. by 4-ft. work, which is the gift of Museum President Seymour H. Knox: $6,000. Last month Nevelson won the $3,000 grand prize in the first Sculpture International of the Torcuato Di Telia Institute's Center of Visual Arts in Buenos Aires, where she exhibited five pieces. In June, she was one of four artists chosen to represent the U.S. at the 31st Biennale in Venice. Louise Nevelson's three rooms of "wall furniture"-one in gold...