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...York Art Dealer Piero Tozzi acquired a dirt-encrusted Renaissance statue of a boy seated on a rock. A sheepskin over one shoulder and a shell in one hand identify the youth as St. John the Baptist, and while Tozzi patiently cleaned the fragile ancient marble inch by inch, using only castile soap and a toothbrush, he began to think it might be a lost statue that Michelangelo is known to have carved in 1496. The possibility has aroused the cautious enthusiasm of a number of scholars, including Italy's Dr. Fernanda de' Maffei, who now presents...
...daughters' party dresses. In the eight years since she went to work for the Eisemans, Mrs. Nelson has had an important hand both in originating styles and in practical innovations like the "add-a-hem" (an ingenious scheme by which hems may be progressively lowered over a four-inch span, simply by pulling one of a series of threads...
...Every inch the husky, handsome, silver-haired leader type, United Steelworkers President David McDonald stood before 900 workers in Midland, Pa., and presented his case for reelection. He wanted a new term, he said, "not for personal pride, but because I love you. I can only say I'm heartsick over what has happened...
...Wall-to-wall carpeting is creeping into the kitchen-and making surprising sense there. The Roxbury Carpet Co. has developed a dense, shallow-pile nylon carpet in twelve colors, bonded to a three-sixteenths-inch sponge rubber backing that is so resistant to most stains that they can be easily removed with a wet sponge. Burned areas may be cut out and replaced without showing edges or a patched look. Eliminated are the hazards of slippery floors, the work of polishing to make them slippery, the breakage of any dropped plate or glass, and the fatigue of the stand...
...Caddy was gone, replaced by a block-long black limousine and a Muslim chauffeur who wore a fuzzy fur hat. Gone, too, were the foxes-Clay is a married man now-and most of the 25 extra pounds he had put on this summer. This time Cassius was every inch the grownup pro prizefighter, determined to prove that what happened last time was no mistake. A rock-hard 215 Ibs. ("I'll be down to 208 by fight time"), he was running four miles a day (one of them backward), boxing as many as nine rounds in an afternoon...