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...Holiday is bound to be controversial. Ever since Leonardo da Vinci proposed one in 1500, men have been designing vehicles with front wheels that provide the traction or driving power, rear wheels that merely go along .for the ride. Today, more than a dozen small European cars have front wheel drive, and both Renault and Peugeot announced last week that they would market new models in 1965. But Detroit has always been wary, discouraged by the performance and cost of experimental models. The Holiday is thus a bold G.M. step into an area where rival U.S. automakers and even other...
...bishop of Des Moines since 1948, one of 22 American churchmen serving on Ecumenical Council commissions; of injuries sustained when the TWA Boeing 707 he was taking to Athens veered off the runway, slammed into a steamroller and exploded during an aborted takeoff at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, killing 48 of 73 passengers and crew...
With the porter's alarm at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci airport last week began an espionage yarn that grew steadily more hilarious to onlookers and more embarrassing to Egypt...
...PETER BLAKE, 32, insists that painting should be pleasing to non-cognoscenti. To Blake's delight, his The Da Vinci Brothers was bought by a professional soccer player. "What I'm doing becomes a folk art," he says. For ten years, since he first enrolled at the Royal College of Art, he has filled his paintings with medals, badges, fancy lettering, pinups, comic strips (he incorporated one in a 1957 painting), athletes,, pop singers from Elvis to the Beatles. Unlike U.S. pop artists, whom he believes (incorrectly) to be harsh satirists, Blake packs his pictures with instant memorabilia...
...rely more on his eye. Once in a junk shop he spied a cupboard with a finely painted door, even though one plank was missing. Later, he found the missing section as part of a stool. Today the picture is on view in the Vatican museum-Leonardo da Vinci's St. Jerome...