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Only Five Minutes More. Pentagon officials agree; they estimate that the bombing is now cutting off 30% of the supplies headed for South Viet Nam and 10-20% of the men who try to in filtrate from the North. Moreover, the daily devastation is being wrought at a diminishing price. When the U.S. began bombing the North, Ho's 7,000 antiaircraft guns and several dozen SAM missile sites brought the attrition rate of planes downed per mission...
...Nationalist Chinese banker politician who became brother-in-law to Ge eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek when he married into the powerful Soong banking family, as Finance Minister from 1933 to 1945 introduced the boon of standardized paper currency, but during his premiership (1939-45) was helpless against the war-wrought inflation that left China sliding toward bankruptcy, after which he was eased into honorary jobs and retirement in the U.S.; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...works, and are negotiating a contract to build 200 for the U.S. market. The crated pieces can transform a Laundromat into a passable pub in ten days. Most popular are the Tudor-style pubs, which feature white walls, oak beams (hollowed to save shipping weight), and wrought-iron fixtures. But they can also be had in Regency (striped wallpaper, glass chandeliers) and Victorian (crimson drapes, gaslights) styles...
...century has wrought a remarkable turnabout. When news of Florence's disastrous floods hit the U.S.'s front pages last fall, the whole art world responded. Brown University Professor Bates Lowry was able with little difficulty to organize the distinguished Committee to Rescue Italian Art. CRIA quickly raised approximately $2,000,000 to aid in the restoration of damaged works. Its most recent-and most popular-fund-raising device is "The Italian Heritage," an exhibit on display through Aug. 29 at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery, where it has already attracted more than 11,000 visitors...
Body into Dress. Biographer Weintraub (T. E. Lawrence, William Golding) evokes the life and times of Beardsley in splendid fashion, but presumably feels that he lacks the competence to weigh the man's art. Beardsley's exquisitely wrought line drawings embraced a vision of some unearthly world-part pagan myth, part Oriental mystery. It was a world inhabited by satyrs and hermaphrodites, dwarfs and dandies, by women either ornamentally angular and boyish or monstrously fat and corrupt. Often they were nude or seminude, but their bodies seemed merely part of their fantastically elaborate dress. His illustrations for such...