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...Many years, O brother of mine") -but many wryly replied, "How many years?" In Italy, New Year's Day ushered in the new constitution and, officially, the new Italian Republic. The flag-raising ceremony at the Quirinal Palace left Italians cautiously optimistic. In a fashionable church in the Corso d'ltalia a pale-faced friar exclaimed: "No miracle is impossible to God. It is not impossible for God to lift the angry clouds that hang so heavily on 1948's beginning." Barbanera (Black-beard), a popular almanac of astrology, predicted for 1948: "Unsuccessful diplomatic encounters . . . conflict avoided...
...strike's last day was a meatless Friday, but at a little trattoria off the Corso Umberto the following noontime exchange took place between customer and proprietor...
...little pizzeria Romualdo on the Piazza della Torretta, a little way from Corso Umberto, you have to wind through narrow streets whose buildings seem to teeter perilously close to each other above, almost shutting out the clear winter sky overhead. It is a pleasant meander to a pleasant place. The unpainted wood tables and slightly rickety straight-back chairs promise the compensation of good food. The promise is kept with true Neapolitan pizza-the best water-buffalo cheese melted with just the right amount of garlic into a flour pancake, light as the finest bread...
Last week Zurich was agog over the latest miracle man. Nightly at the Corso, the city's largest music hall, a 35-year-old Dutchman named Mirin Dajo stood stoically while an assistant seemed to push swords and spears through his chest. "I am no artist," Dajo said, "but a prophet. If you believe in God, your will can dominate your body. People wouldn't believe me if I started to talk. But after seeing my invulnerability they will." The act was a great success. So many people fainted that waiters demanded payment of checks before each performance...
Zurich's police were not quite so happy. Last week they stopped his show at the Corso. Now Dajo plans to take his "message" all over the world. "My invulnerability," he claims, "has been tested with burning irons, boiling water, and stabbing through the chest. Twice I have been shot through the head [he shows visitors two scars allegedly from the shots, one in the center of the forehead, the other above his right eye] from half a yard distance...