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Service Ears. Since no electioneering is permitted inside U.S. bases, both sides prowl around outside. In Italy, where there are an estimated 35,000 eligible voters, Goldwater subcommittees are in operation in Vicenza, Verona, Leghorn and Naples, near U.S. military sites. At British market towns outside U.S. bases, the Democrats have parked decorated carts equipped with loud speakers playing Hello, Lyndon, hoping to catch the ear of U.S. servicemen and their wives on shopping tours...
...also see a scale drawing of Italy's first permanent theatre, the Teatro Olimpico in vicenza, designed by Palladio in the 1580's and much copied throughout Europe. France's first theatre, of a tennis-court shape, in the Hotel de Bourgogne (1548) is also on view...
ROME, my Mistress. Vitruvius, my Master, Architecture, my Life." Such was the trinity acknowledged by Andrea Palladio (1518-80), a stonemason's son from Vicenza, Italy, who grew up to rule over a whole generation of fellow architects and to recast the classic style of Rome and Greece with such elegance and authority that his Palladian style became one of the longest-lasting and most widely accepted personal idioms in the history of architecture. In an effort to preserve Pal-ladio's work (many of his most beautiful structures were made of common brick and perishable stucco...
Rome Domesticated. Palladia was a master at building churches, convents and palaces. At 31 he walked off with a competition to reface the great medieval Basilica at Vicenza. His improvised solution-a two-story arcade made up of Doric and Ionic columns that frame intervening arches supported by free-standing columns-was so brilliantly successful that it has since been copied the length and breadth of Europe. A decade later he was the architect Venice turned to for the plans of San Giorgio Maggiore, one of the most beautiful, classically ordered churches in the city. But it was the country...
Science in the Defiles. SETAF stakes its job in a three-point pattern. Headquarters, stationed in ancient Verona, and Task Forces Alfa and Bravo,* in Vicenza, are assigned to defend Italy's northeastern frontier (Austria and Yugoslavia); about 150 miles to the southwest, at the Italian port of Livorno, is Task Force Sierra, which supplies Alfa and Bravo with everything from carbines to carefully shrouded atomic warheads. If war comes, Alfa and Bravo can take aim on or fan out into the painstakingly mapped passes and defiles of the nearby Alps with astonishing mobility. With...