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From his summer palace in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius XII announced his "blessing and benediction to employees and members of the Associated Press everywhere . . . because of the important work the Associated Press does...
...Italy, on an inspection tour of U.S. Navy installations, Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball stopped off at the summer papal palace at Castel Gandolfo, was received with his wife and staff by Pope Pius...
...under the weather with a slight fever and a mild cold, canceled all audiences for the remainder of the week. But by week's end His Holiness felt well enough to appear at a window overlooking the inner courtyard of the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo to give his blessings to a crowd of 300 pilgrims...
...famed Anzio Beach. Shops, offices, banks, even Vatican City's Sistine Chapel, were closed up tight, though St. Peter's, as always, stayed open. Garbage went uncollected. milk undelivered, newspapers unpublished and tourists unsolicited by the prostitutes in Villa Borghese park. At his summer palace of Castel Gandolfo. Pope Pius XII rested for a couple of days; so did Premier Alcide de Gasperi and most of his political friends and enemies. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti spent the weekend hiking in the Alps with a collection of village Communists...
Another agreement with Britain, almost completed, provided for improvement and U.S. use of R.A.F. bases protecting Africa: Bengasi and Castel Benito in Libya; Habbaniya and Shaibah in Iraq; airfields around the Suez Canal; Amman in Jordan; Cyprus and Malta in the Mediterranean. With the new bases, a U.S. plane taking off from Cyprus, for example, would have to fly only 1,500 miles to Moscow, 1,000 miles to Baku. The U.S. already held giant Wheelus Field near Tripoli (also being enlarged), and an airbase at Dhahran in Saudi Arabia...