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...pilgrims hustled past her premises and up the nearest mountain to the little (pop. 643) village of Castel San Pietro Romano. For there the rumor had it, a goddess enchantingly more substantial had suddenly come to earth among the amorous groves. Gina Lollobrigida (pronounced low-low-bridge-id-ah) was in town to make a movie...
...Class turned indoors to Boston theatres and night clubs with the winter season at hand: "Candida" came to town along with "The Miracle," which was hailed as the apogee of dramatic art, and "Abies Iris Rose" at the Castel Square Theatre, one of the eleven legitimate theatres in town. And the Cantagridgians were delighted with the news that a movie theatre would be constructed in the Square by the fall...
Lately, Guareschi has been feuding with aged (73) ex-Premier Alcide de Gasperi, whom he blames for the fall of the Pella government in January. Two weeks later, Candido carried an article on De Gasperi, referring to him as "the sniper of Castel Gandolfo," and as "cold, ruthless, devoid of all scruple." Along with that, the weekly reproduced a purported letter from De Gasperi, apparently addressed to a British officer in 1944, which called for Allied bombing of Rome as "the only way to break the moral resistance of the Roman people." De Gasperi pronounced the letter a forgery, directed...
...time, two other Greek leaders landed in Italy and were feted with maximum pomp and ceremony. Premier Alexander Papagos and Foreign Minister Stephanos Stephanopoulos were met at the Rome airport by a delegation headed by Italian Premier Giuseppe Pella. That evening, going to a reception in Rome's Castel Sant' Angelo, spectacularly lighted by 1,023 flaming oil pots, Stephanopoulos and Papagos were saluted by guards in 16th-century costume. The party in the famed Borgia apartments atop the ancient pile (classically known as Hadrian's Tomb) was the high point of a four-day visit which...
Most men shrink from death. Tazio Nuvolari spent most of his life racing toward it. Born in the little village of Castel d'Ario, in the province of Mantua, he first challenged death at 13, jumping off his parents' roof with an umbrella for a parachute. Tazio got off with a few bruises...