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...balance is delicate, and any last-minute deal among supporters of the three contenders might well determine the outcome on election day. If APRA and Haya de la Torre should win, they face the possibility that Peru's military men, emboldened by the Argentine example, will attempt to annul the election. Odria already accuses APRA of trying to rig the voting. "If the government allows fraud, there will be deeds not words," shouted Odria at a rally in Lima. And last week the army, which is charged with supervising the election, reported the discovery of 1,591 falsified voting...
...military. On his own, he went to the Supreme Court to be sworn in as President. Poggi, who had been drafting a decree naming himself President, hastened to cross-examine Guido until he was convinced that the new President would not stand in the way of a drive to annul the elections that the Perónistas won, smash Perónista trade unions, and suppress Perónism completely...
Italian Cinemelon Sophia Loren, 27, had her day in court on two continents. In Rome, her fond discoverer, Producer Carlo Ponti, was racing to annul their marriage before they could be booked for bigamy (Italy does not recognize Ponti's divorce from his first wife). In New York Supreme Court, where Sophia was suing Bronston Productions, Inc. because she was billed below Charlton Heston on a Broadway sign ballyhooing El Cid. Justice Samuel Hofstadter chucked out her requested injunction. Said he: "Such vanity doubtless is due to the adulation which the public showers on the denizens of the entertainment...
...will probably wind up at Harvard) to his fourth wife. "I repose complete confidence in my beloved wife Mary," it continued, "to provide for [my three children by previous marriages] according to written instructions I have given her." Literary style of the testament: a stilted legalese ("I hereby cancel, annul and revoke . . ."), presumably cribbed from previous wills and marred by the misspelling, "siezed...
...Rota does not, properly speaking, annul marriages-it declares them never to have existed. Most such "declarations of nullity," can be disposed of by the tribunals at diocesan level: in Italy no case is considered by the Rota unless it has gone through two such lower courts, and cases outside Italy must have been judged by at least one. Even so, the Rota's load has grown with the times. In 1937 it handled 70 cases. Last year there were 198, in 88 of which declarations of nullity were granted...