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...last week, Italy's Chamber of Deputies ended a tumultuous 19-hour session by approving legislation permitting civil divorce for the first time in more than 150 years. At 5:44 a.m., the first of a tide of telephone calls from impatient clients roused slumbering Milan Lawyer Giovanni Bovio. The quick response, grumbled Bovio, must be something of "a speed record...
Even before President Giuseppe Sa-ragat signed the long-awaited divorce bill into law a few hours later, it was clear that Attorney Bovio and his legal colleagues would be getting little sleep for some time to come. An estimated 1,000,000 or more Italians are ready to start divorce actions under the new law. Echoing the entire Italian bar, Rome Attorney Vinicio de Matteis declared: "We are now in a state of emergency...
...Bovio Fanelli is known in his village of Riccia, Italy, as a Communist and militant atheist. When he appeared in church to be godfather at a baptism, the priest, Don Alfonso Manocchio, declared Fanelli unacceptable and refused to baptize the baby. Then and there Communist Fanelli scooped up a pitcher of holy water and poured it on the baby's head, saying: "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost...
Handles. In Taylorville, Ill., Florence Duck married Paul Drake. In Greenville, Tex., the H. B. Ducks named their new son Donald. Near Red Wing, Minn., the towboat Herbert Hoover pulled the Franklin D. Roosevelt off the rocks. In Omaha, joke-weary Bovio Palucca asked court permission to change his last name to Parke. In Manhattan, Alfred Papa became a papa...
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