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...Roman workers stayed away from their jobs the first morning. Communist demonstrators filled the squares, but the De Gasperi government-rather to the general surprise-had done some stage-setting, too. A battalion of regular army troops with full field equipment took up positions in the Piazza Colonna. Armored cars and fast police jeeps rolled through the streets. When a demonstration was expected at the Ministry of the Interior, firemen played a few jets of cold water through the air. There was no demonstration...
...black-market money exchanges in Rome's Piazza Colonna, the news came as a profound shock. But to Italian exporters, U.S. importers and world traders everywhere, the news was the best out of Italy in months. Last week, the Italian government abandoned the fictitious value it had set on the lira. It devalued the lira from 350 to the U.S. dollar to what it considered its true worth-the last month's average black-market price of 589 to the dollar...
Died. Prince Domenico Napoleone Orsini, 78, Prince Assistant to the Pontifical Throne, highest honorary lay office in the Vatican court, head of one of Rome's top-ranking families; in Rome-twelve days after the death of the head of the Orsinis' historic rivals, Prince Marcantonio Colonna (TIME, March...
Died. Prince Marcantonio Colonna, 66, Prince Assistant to the Pontifical Throne (highest honorary office a Catholic layman can hold at the Vatican court), head of one of the oldest, most powerful families of Italy's Black-bluebloods; after long illness; in Rome...
...little too much for politicos to bear. At a Jackson Day dinner in Los Angeles last spring, at which the Committee was set to shower its kisses on Henry Wallace, its favorite son, Henry was preceded on the speaker's program by Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Jerry Colonna, Burns & Allen, Edward G. Robinson, George Jessel, Mickey Rooney, Margaret O'Brien, Frank Sinatra and Bette Davis. So, by the time hapless Henry got up to talk...