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...year-old architect also traces an influence to Rome at the time of Da Vinci and Michelangelo, which, he says, knew the secret of creating beauty in a crowded city...
...Tresidder Memorial Union, a handsome hacienda that does wonders for the university's architecture, which is mostly a blend of Early Southern Pacific and Neo-Romanesque. "Our motto is coffee and culture," glows Director Chester A. Berry, 46. Just for a start. Berry will soon launch "Project Da Vinci"-stuffing Tresidder with Leonardo's notebooks, reproductions of his sketches and 35 working models of his inventions...
Thin Skin. Last week not only Puffin's puffers, but two other teams of British aeronauts as well, were attempting to accomplish what Leonardo da Vinci had failed to do nearly 450 years ago: build and fly an aircraft powered only by man. The payoff is tempting: a $14,000 prize donated by London Industrialist Henry Kremer, 55. The rules of the contest are deceptively simple. All a citizen of the Commonwealth has to do is fly a heavier-than-air craft over a figure-eight course, around two turning points not less than half a mile apart. According...
...meeting, Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. set off general giggling with his candid explanation as to why the company was enlarging its collection of early scientific models rather than paintings. "My father was the art expert," he said dryly. "We have been turning more to collections of Leonardo da Vinci models-something I can understand." At many meetings, too, attendance was smaller than last year; by discontinuing its free lunch, A.T. & T. cut attendance from 20,000 last year to 3,200 a fortnight...
...call came-and what the army discovered about Jean is currently the talk of France. The mind of the peasant boy, it turned out upon testing, is comparable to that of Pascal or Leonardo da Vinci...